Talking Discourse: An Interview with Jeff Atwood

http://blog.bitnami.com/2014/02/talking-discourse-interview-with-jeff.html

by ridruejo • 12 years ago

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Is this a typo:

So it's a pretty good blend of technologies. You know we're trying to get out of the – what I call the MySQL and PHP ghetto, you know, where that's just sort of the de facto standard. Not because it's actually any good but because well it's installed everywhere so that's what I call server herpes. Every server has it. So if every server has it then that's what you gotta use. But we're trying to sort of break that paradigm up a little bit and say, "Hey, Discourse is so good." It's a little bit like VisaCalc. I mean you got – that's kind of a strong comparison but it's so good you want it on your server, even if it requires Ruby and Postgres and Redis and things that are good, you know? Things that are modern.

I'm assuming he said VisiCalc?

ebrescia• 12 years ago

Yes, that was VisiCalc. Thanks for catching that!

pdwetz• 12 years ago

Another typo: the link to the source is to "gethub.com/discourse". Funny thing is when I clicked it I assumed GitHub was having another outtage until I scanned the Url more closely.

jmccree• 12 years ago

I love how PHP is mentioned in one paragraph in a long interview, yet gets two bullet points and the title here at HN. Hate much?

ridruejo• 12 years ago

It is not that much about hate. It is about how development of modern server apps (Ghost, Discourse) is leaving the 'standard' way of doing things and spawning a new generation of apps that will compete with the established PHP-based solutions (WordPress, Drupal, etc.)

kendalk• 12 years ago

In defense of the PHP devs here, I think calling PHP "server herpes" was sort of asking for it.

ozh• 12 years ago

So it's ok to rewrite titles now?

joesmo• 12 years ago

Seriously, at this point, any of the major interpreted backend languages (PHP, Ruby, Python) are capable of pretty much the same thing. The claim that a language is more loved by its users or has a better community is nonsense. Until you can prove that with numbers, it's just useless banter.

Talking Discourse: An Interview with Jeff Atwood

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