[lubos]

From Atwood/Spolsky podcasts it seems like Spolsky had zero impact on tech stack. Jeff Atwood was at the time C# programmer so he wrote StackOverflow in C#.

More context: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/

[jimmcslim]

I wonder if they would make the same decision about Discourse and Ruby today, given that .NET Core is now a thing and open-source?

[romanovcode]

I bet not, it was clearly a hype-decision for Discourse.

[JeremyBanks]

It was because his cofounder, who was doing more of the initial coding, was most comfortable with Ruby.