[throwaway22032]

Why do people keep building large scale projects like this in languages in Ruby?

I don't get it. It feels as if fundamentally you've built a prototype.

We're talking about messages and images, this sort of thing should be able to run on a 500mhz Celeron as long as the bandwidth is there.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

500Mhz? We don't need a super computer for this, we were playing 3D 6DOF games on 100Mhz pentiums with 16MB of RAM with mutliplayer over dialup.

Our industry is a fucking joke.

[throwaway22032]

Yeah.

It's honestly bizarre to me. I prototype in Python, and sure I might be lazy and use it for services that I know don't have to scale at all.

But as soon as I point something towards the public internet it's just gotta be better than that.