Re: (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub

I wrote:

> I know exactly what sort of mishegoss you're talking about -- but Ruby
> the scripting language is rather a different proposition from Ruby on
> Rails, and I'd not blame the Ruby language for what David Heinemeier
> Hansson[1] & co. did with it as a component of the Rails server-side Web
> application framework.

I spoke too soon.  The Wikipedia page about GitHub is insufficiently
informative:  As it turns out, the GitHub codebase does indeed appear to
run atop Ruby on Rails, and not just be interpreted Ruby code driving a
Web app.  See, e.g.:

https://packages.debian.org/stable/gitlab