On what to write a portal like twitter.com and a similar service?

Question

Ruby on Rails

On what to write a portal like twitter.com and a similar service? RoR, Java, PHP?

Answer 1

On what you like!
In any of the proposed languages, you can write both an excellent and not very excellent project. If we analyze similar questions recently on the toaster, then everything is not so much in the language as in the architecture of the application.

Answer 2

There is an excellent post by Alexander Gorny (former RBC CTO, now CIO mail.ru)
gornal.livejournal.com/81969.html

Answer 3

I don't write myself, I'm a designer. And I'm looking for a programmer to write. So I'm trying to figure out who and what to look for

Answer 4

What about
python+twisted
nodejs
erlang
?

Answer 5

Choose NodeJs and you can't go wrong

Answer 6

It is necessary to write not _in_ the language, but with the help of the language. And you need to write on what you yourself like best.

Answer 7

Ruby will be expensive but with beautiful code