On 03/28/2010 01:50 PM, Henry Litwhiler wrote: > PHP simply isn't the language we want to use for the *backbone* of GNU > Social. It's all well and good for parsing data and displaying it to the > browser, but it simply isn't suited for the nitty-gritty work of > handling node-to-node communications - at least, not in the distributed, > p2p model that Ted Smith and I envision.
Well, it has to be. We have to find a way to make it work. We cannot, and will not, expect novice users to install Python applications on commodity web hosting. There's no reason at all why I can't set up a server, publish my social activity to my own server and have my friends pull that information in.
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