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Yeah, I wrote Tumblr in PHP, but I'm eager to abandon it. You know, it's just an easy to use, broken language that you can scale a site to 15 billion page views per month with. I'm sure my next project will need a better language, because it's going to scale to 400 billion page views per month, and PHP just isn't going to cut it.

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>> "you can scale a site to 15 billion page views per month"

You know what does that even better? C.

Oh, that's too painful? You want tools that make development easier and less error-prone?

Exactly.

Where did he say anything about scaling in the article?

I was actually pleasantly surprised by not reading about the usual "webscale" BS in these two articles. Both authors made it very clear that this is not about being able or unable to build something with a given language, but the quality of how you do it.

On what planet is the ability to scale a web application not a quality metric?

It sure it, but that's not part of the discussion. Also, when talking about web development, the language used is rarely the bottle neck.

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