# Slashdot: twitter on scala

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slashdot-twitter-on-scala/164986>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 8, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slashdot-twitter-on-scala/164986 "2009-04-08T01:32:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![tim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@tim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tim)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slashdot-twitter-on-scala/164986/1 "2009-04-08T01:32:09Z")

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I suspect this is old news to many but I just picked it up on slashdot  
today, so in case you missed it:

> **[Twitter On Scala - Slashdot](https://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/04/07/1928218/twitter-on-scala)**
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> machaut writes "Twitter, one of the highest profile Ruby on Rails-backed websites on the Internet, has in the past year started replacing some of their Ruby infrastructure with an emerging language called Scala, developed by Martin Odersky at...