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> Sometimes I wonder, may be we could remake twitter with Rails again to see how well it goes. Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails (:
by caiusdurling 2y ago
> Sometimes I wonder, may be we could remake twitter with Rails again to see how well it goes.
Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails (:
- radlad 2y agoMaybe not the best testimonial. From what I've heard, Mastodon is a bit of a beast to scale. While some of this is probably due to ActivityPub (a la https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/) itself, some of it may be related to Ruby's execution model: https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/posts/2022/why-mastodon-instances-are-difficult-to-scale/ https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/posts/2022/why-mastodon-instan... My issue with Ruby (and Rails) has always been the "ball of mud" problem that I feel originates from its extensive use of syntactical sugar and automagic.