[eviks]

> The reason I dislike the twitter argument is, even if ruby was the root cause, the choice of ruby still launched the business and got them to that first success disaster.

This only works if there was no better language to launch a similar business in, which would've avoided the disaster

[HighGoldstein]

Was there one at the time? My impression is that back then you could either have a language/framework combo that's easy to work with _or_ one that solved all these technical problems, but not both.