Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)

Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by frik on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:46AM (#15642886)

I personally would select a dynamically typed language (preferable with C-like syntax) like JS/PHP/Lua/etc over a statically typed one for web server projects most of the time. Only for specific high performance web server usecases I would use Go or Java. For video games and other high performance applications I would use C++.

Larger teams have different requirements.

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by always_good on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:55AM (#15643801)

Dynamically-typed languages on the server also tend to work well because they are often just a thin glue layer between a strict data layer (like Postgres) and the client.

Following a GET request through a web server usually just involves some middleware, a dozen lines of route handler, a dozen lines of database queries or service calls, maybe an html template, and you're done.

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