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New Rule: Thou shalt not utter the word “Scalability” without including a link to objective repeatable testing that proves your point.

I still don’t understand where the idea that dynamic languages are fundamentally less scalable than Java comes from, at least where web applications are concerned. Is there really any hard evidence to support this assertion? Any solid, repeatable tests that people are basing this on? No one I’ve seen brandishing that old smelly club of “scalability” has ever offered up any. It sounds like wild speculation and marketing FUD from where I’m standing.

I’ve done web development using both Java and dynamic languages (Ruby, Perl, Python), some of which handled literally thousands of requests per second. My observations are that scalability is a problem no matter what language you use. Maybe there’s some magical solution that will solve that problem for you when you write your stuff in Java, but it must be a well-kept secret.

(via Obie’s Blog)