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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by diegoholiveira on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:12AM (#48891498)
I remember that. It was the first time I heard about Scala.

I saw a lot of RoR companies/users thinking “should we do the same?” without even realizing that they do not have the same twitter scalability problems.

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by busterarm on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:32AM (#48891734)
It didn't even end there at Twitter.

The same engineer at Twitter decided early on that no distributed messaging technology was good enough for Twitter, so they wrote their own. It fell over and they threw it away and wrote their own again. It fell over and they threw it away and now they use mainstream tools.

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