Seriously, at this point, any of the major interpreted backend languages (PHP, Ruby, Python) are capable of pretty much the same thing. The claim that a language is more loved by its users or has a better community is nonsense. Until you can prove that with numbers, it's just useless banter.

Is this a typo:

So it's a pretty good blend of technologies. You know we're trying to get out of the – what I call the MySQL and PHP ghetto, you know, where that's just sort of the de facto standard. Not because it's actually any good but because well it's installed everywhere so that's what I call server herpes. Every server has it. So if every server has it then that's what you gotta use. But we're trying to sort of break that paradigm up a little bit and say, "Hey, Discourse is so good." It's a little bit like VisaCalc. I mean you got – that's kind of a strong comparison but it's so good you want it on your server, even if it requires Ruby and Postgres and Redis and things that are good, you know? Things that are modern.

I'm assuming he said VisiCalc?

I love how PHP is mentioned in one paragraph in a long interview, yet gets two bullet points and the title here at HN. Hate much?

So it's ok to rewrite titles now?