While Ev certainly deserves plenty of credit for Twitter's success, I think you're giving him a little too much in this case.
Twitter actually started out as a Rails project because Florian Weber (who worked at Odeo with Jack on the initial implementation) was a member of the Rails Core team. Jack was originally going to develop it in Python, C, and Ocaml. I don't believe that Ev ever had anything to do with the decision to use Rails.
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While Ev certainly deserves plenty of credit for Twitter's success, I think you're giving him a little too much in this case.
Twitter actually started out as a Rails project because Florian Weber (who worked at Odeo with Jack on the initial implementation) was a member of the Rails Core team. Jack was originally going to develop it in Python, C, and Ocaml. I don't believe that Ev ever had anything to do with the decision to use Rails.
https://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/47090747706580992
How much Rails is left in the Twitter project today ?
Some of the frontend... I think it's out of the backend.