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Right. Let's imagine that Facebook was written in Perl, YouTube in Ruby, and Twitter in PHP, do you think they would still be successful?
by hkr 15y ago
Right. Let's imagine that Facebook was written in Perl, YouTube in Ruby, and Twitter in PHP, do you think they would still be successful?
- rawsyntax 15y agoFacebook and YouTube yes. I am unsure about twitter.
- rjbond3rd 15y agoCould you please explain?
- rawsyntax 15y agoFor facebook, considering how often stuff is broken.. I Think perl or php would've done a fine job. For youtube, I think the pull is uploading / watching videos online, and it just doesn't have anything to do with the language they picked. For Twitter, I'm not sure how it's successful in the first place, but I do feel like there was a lot of enthusiasm in the ruby community, simply because they were based on ruby. So if they picked say php, would they have had that early cache of users? I don't think so.
- bigiain 15y agoGiven that Facebook is written in PHP, and Twitter (I think) started out in Ruby, I'm not sure your assertion is well supported by your examples. Keep in mind too, that the backend you launch with will not be the same as the backend you have at your multibillion dollar IPO. It _may_ still be written in the same language, but thats certainly not a given.)
- rjbond3rd 15y agoSo you're saying those three languages are so defective that they would have killed the startups that used them?
- hkr 15y agoNo, not at all. Do you think Facebook would have gone so far into implementing all the current features since the launch if the whole site was written in Perl? Same thing with YouTube and Twitter...
- rjbond3rd 15y agoUm, sorry, was that intended as a clarification? You merely repeated your original question.