On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
For various reasons, I think the best language for
this project is Ruby. I
realize that is a controversial choice, and I would like to explain my
reasoning. First let me address what I think will be the most serious
objections:
** Ruby gems are incompatible with Debian/Ubuntu apt packaging, making it
difficult or impossible to maintain Ruby code in production.
You will want to talk to OPs, AFAIK they have desires to not see any
more ruby on the cluster, since very little amount of the dev
community known it and/or how to maintain.