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		9rx 70 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead... > 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].

kristianp 70 days ago [–]

> 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.

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