Should Wikipedia's software be rewritten in Ruby on Rails?

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LamontStormstar	Sat 11th October 2008, 9:40am Post #1
Postmaster Group: Regulars Posts: 2,359 Joined: Fri 18th Aug 2006, 7:25am Member No.: 342 WP user page - talk check - contribs	Should Wikipedia's software be rewritten in Ruby on Rails? Discuss.

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KamrynMatika	Sat 11th October 2008, 5:10pm Post #2
Über Member Group: Regulars Posts: 625 Joined: Sun 24th Jun 2007, 1:59am Member No.: 1,776	Ruby is slower than PHP. Ruby can be 20x slower than Java in fact. There'd be absolutely no point rewriting it. I'm really interested to see where things like http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt go, though. C++ is pretty fast. The point of RoR is that it's fast to develop in it, that's about its only selling point - if you have an already developed system that works just fine it would be completely redundant to rewrite it.

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LamontStormstar Should Wikipedia's software be rewritten in Ruby on Rails? Sat 11th October 2008, 9:40am

Lar Should Wikipedia's software be rewritten in R... Sat 11th October 2008, 1:19pm

Milton Roe But I tell my clients not to replace perfectly go... Sat 11th October 2008, 8:39pm

LamontStormstar Java would probably be even slower than PHP. When... Sat 11th October 2008, 1:35pm

Kelly Martin Java would probably be even slower than PHP. When... Sun 12th October 2008, 1:00am

KamrynMatika Ruby is slower than PHP. Ruby can be 20x slower th... Sat 11th October 2008, 5:10pm

Somey Personally, now that Delphi for PHP exists, I can... Sat 11th October 2008, 8:02pm

LamontStormstar Personally, now that Delphi for PHP exists, I can... Mon 13th October 2008, 5:44pm

Somey I'm not sure what Delphi for PHP is about. De... Mon 13th October 2008, 6:32pm

gomi Hmm... isn't the native PHP interpreter writt... Mon 13th October 2008, 6:49pm

The Joy I thought Brion Vibber and friends had switched to... Sat 11th October 2008, 8:14pm

KamrynMatika I thought Brion Vibber and friends had switched t... Sat 11th October 2008, 8:26pm

Kelly Martin The PHP interpreter is written in C or C++ (I forg... Mon 13th October 2008, 6:43pm

Somey PHP is a fantastically crappy language. It's a... Mon 13th October 2008, 6:51pm

gomi PHP is a fantastically crappy language. Yes, it is... Mon 13th October 2008, 6:51pm

Kelly Martin PHP is a fantastically crappy language.Yes, it is ... Mon 13th October 2008, 7:03pm

GlassBeadGame [quote name='gomi' post='135661' date='Mon 13th O... Mon 13th October 2008, 8:10pm

Kelly Martin I'm a rank beginner compared to many of you bu... Mon 13th October 2008, 8:20pm

GlassBeadGame I'm a rank beginner compared to many of you b... Mon 13th October 2008, 8:27pm

LamontStormstar I know the site Twitter runs on RoR. Kelly, what ... Mon 13th October 2008, 6:49pm

LamontStormstar Hmmm I thought Python was faster than PHP and Perl... Mon 13th October 2008, 6:57pm

gomi Hmmm I thought Python was faster than PHP and Per... Mon 13th October 2008, 8:52pm

dogbiscuit In the old days MySQL was a no no compared with Po... Mon 13th October 2008, 9:10pm

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