Mired in Ruby/Rails technical debt? Great thoughts from @PivotDesk

Java provides a perfect example here. I started using Java after attending the first Java One conference in 1995, and have used it extensively since then in every conceivable context: startups, big corporations, individual exploration, small one-team projects, large distributed multi-team efforts. Java has great execution speed and scalability. That, combined with the huge number of libraries and frameworks, makes it a great language for web-server development. This is particularly true if you are hosting complex or heterogenous services, perhaps with requirements to integrate with legacy systems or other web-based services on the back end...