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Re:Scalability, but at what cost? (2015) by matthewmacleod on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @04:01PM (#11857325)
When he said "switching to Scala" I reckon he probably meant "rewriting our platform."

It's very difficult to do a comparison like this in practice, because switching languages inherently involves a rewrite of a platform.

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Re:Scalability, but at what cost? (2015) by collyw on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @07:49AM (#11861540)
I am curious how much a rewrite staying in Ruby could have saved. Its always easier to write code when you have a good specification, and a working application would fulfill that role well.
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