Why is Twitter using so much Scala?

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Real-time communication: Twitter is known to be a real-time communication platform. Users can send and receive tweets instantly, allowing people to share information, news and opinions about events and happenings in real time. Global Reach: Twitter has a global user base, which means people can connect and communicate with others from all over the world. This makes Twitter a powerful platform for sharing information and ideas.

However, #Nostr does the same and much more.

But Twitter manipulates timing as to who sees what when and from whom, bans what they don’t like. So not like Nostr at all.

Did chatgpt write this for you?

Some hipster dev must thought it was cool for some reason, other languages too mainstream for him.

This is the real answer.

Cuz they have trouble with Scala

I thought you liked it

IIRC they started out using Ruby on Rails and then had scaling issues so they moved on to Scala which just became popular at the time.

Maybe they switched, so their software would be more Scala-ble

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They rewrote the original ror app in Scala back when it was new hotness.

Why not? πŸ€”