Performance is a big deal too. If you try to start a VC backed startup with Rail...

lnanek2 on March 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology

Performance is a big deal too. If you try to start a VC backed startup with Rails nowadays everyone will tell you to stop, you are just going to have to rewrite it in something performant anyway if anything happens, so to just start in NodeJS and save time. Big headline cases like LinkedIn having to move over is in everyone's heads.

lucian1900 on March 14, 2014 [–]

You could write it in Ruby without Rails and it'd be about the same.