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"Languages don't matter. Platforms matter. APIs matter. Playing nicely with the rest of the world fucking matters."

Nice, I like that.

Reminds me of the Discourse peeps, who rejected eg PHP, and wrote it in their pet language, ignoring that no-one cares about language, and finding the problem that their platform is so difficult to install and use, that no-one uses their software.

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> no-one cares about language

Yeah, why should users ever care about language? Users generally don't know what the heck this "language" thing is. At least if it's not French, English, Chinese or something like that.

Now, for developers, not caring about a language they use is very short-sighted, to say the least.

> the Discourse peeps, who rejected eg PHP, and wrote it in their pet language, ignoring that no-one cares about language

Are you talking about Ruby/Rails?

The OP is being overly dismissive, but has a point -- there's a market for Ruby, but in terms of most of the use cases for online bulletin board software, both Rails and Postgres are much rarer than PHP and MySQL.

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