This is the biggest win for Diaspora? Really? Sounds like they've been deluded by all those NYU CS professors who think knowing how to add 32 bit floating point numbers is the key to success.
Just dump everything, spend 1% of your time rewriting everything in PHP, and the rest actually doing some marketing, not imaginary work.
They're running a fairly large scale app, which has a lot of users and recently experienced serious capacity issues (after Ilya's fairly well publicized death). Optimizing it doesn't seem premature at all.
Just dump everything, spend 1% of your time rewriting everything in PHP, and the rest actually doing some marketing, not imaginary work.