I was honestly surprised that they wrote the thing in Rails. When I saw that, I got a sinking feeling that they got WAY behind in the timeline.
I'm trying to find it now but I distinctly remember they said it would be written in PHP because that's what they knew. Switching to Rails was a terrible decision at that point in the game. Not that Rails is a terrible decision but using other people's money to learn Rails was probably not the best choice and the quality of the code suffered.
I would love to hear some discussion on why they decided to switch. Did they get behind on work? Did they find a limitation in getting the work done in PHP? Did they do it because it was "cool"? Only one of those is acceptable but still not justification imho.
As to the original question, I paid $100 dollars to the project but I didn't have high expectations. I paid for the concept. I paid to get the idea on the map and HOPEFULLY to have someone sit and think about the architecture for a minute. I fully expect to see people take the framework established and develop alternate seeds in other languages.
I'm trying to find it now but I distinctly remember they said it would be written in PHP because that's what they knew. Switching to Rails was a terrible decision at that point in the game. Not that Rails is a terrible decision but using other people's money to learn Rails was probably not the best choice and the quality of the code suffered.
I would love to hear some discussion on why they decided to switch. Did they get behind on work? Did they find a limitation in getting the work done in PHP? Did they do it because it was "cool"? Only one of those is acceptable but still not justification imho.
As to the original question, I paid $100 dollars to the project but I didn't have high expectations. I paid for the concept. I paid to get the idea on the map and HOPEFULLY to have someone sit and think about the architecture for a minute. I fully expect to see people take the framework established and develop alternate seeds in other languages.