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		Jgrubb on Aug 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dylan: the harsh realities of the market > 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?

cwyers on Aug 26, 2014 [–]

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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