Applications are Built by Good Developers, Not Technologies
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I’m taking on a bit more of Chris Shiflett’s post Ruby on Rails Fans. Following a list of the best Web 2.0 applications (Digg, del.icio.us, Wikipedia etc.), he tells how these kick-ass sites are written in PHP. He then reviews the best Ruby applications. Following this he writes:
“I think a larger point is that good applications are built by good developers, not technologies. Did you know what all of these applications were written in? Did you care? Be honest.”
Oh, I know, I know. The point is quite obvious. But it is a good reminder. A good programmer doesn’t necessarily need the best language. If he/she is a good programmer, they can make the best of whatever language they want. To get right down to it, you should somehow be able to create any type of site that currently exists, using any Turing-complete language. It may take more, or less work in some. Creating a web application would be a lot more work in assembly, than Ruby on Rails, for an extreme example. But language choice should not be blamed for the failure of a project, if the choice was reasonable to begin with. That is more of a fault on the part of the programmer.
