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> the Discourse peeps, who rejected eg PHP, and wrote it in their pet language, ignoring that no-one cares about language

Are you talking about Ruby/Rails?




The OP is being overly dismissive, but has a point -- there's a market for Ruby, but in terms of most of the use cases for online bulletin board software, both Rails and Postgres are much rarer than PHP and MySQL.




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