Comment by dominicrose
3 days ago
Rails wouldn't exist without Ruby, Ruby wouldn't exist without C, Rails can't be rewritten in C, Rails isn't a library.
But aren't Rails, Laravel and Django a bit similar? At least for the people not directly involved in coding.
> Rails can't be rewritten in C
It could if you added message passing to C.
Which we have, and DHH admits that Rails took directly from that. Rails is (loosely) a rewrite of what was originally written in C [with extensions].
> Rails is (loosely) a rewrite of what was originally written in C [with extensions].
Are you talking about WebObjects, which was written in Objective-C? (1) If so your comment is somewhat tangential to the truth.
(1 2104) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8765009