Home » forums » LtU Forum Twitter and Scala Thought this might be of interest to the Scala (and Twitter and Ruby on Rails) folks here. The Twitter dev team has switched to Scala because RoR couldn't handle the server side traffic. To me this is really interesting since most shops are usually hesitant to switch to "academic" languages, but here we are. And I'm pretty sure its not an April Fool's prank either! Comment viewing options Flat list - collapsed Flat list - expanded Threaded list - collapsed Threaded list - expanded Date - newest first Date - oldest first Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.