Today's Email Incident
Recognizing that it is not politically correct in these parts to pose this question, I sometimes wonder if the Github team (which seems like a highly-skilled, competent team) regrets building on Rails.<p>It seems they have been able to use their high skill and competence to laboriously steer a bulky and (dare I say it?) heavily-engineered framework to serve Github as the modestly fast and fairly reliable site that it is.<p>But would not they be happier had the efforts exhausted on scale, reliability, and repair been available to spend building features had a faster, less confusing platform and framework been selected?<p>I know, it's antithetical or heretical to imply that Rails is anything but a model of efficiency.