Re:Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby
by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:07AM
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> Ruby seems to have a footprint on Hacker News disproportionate to its general popularity and TIOBE index.
TIOBE index is a junk metric (I'm surprised so many technical people seem to buy into it; it's the worst kind of easy to get a precise number, hard to demonstrate that that number has any more than a very distant relationship to anything meaningful, kind of metric that, IME, tech people mock bad managers for buying into.)
That said, Ruby’s got (via Rails and other web frameworks, and via various testing and admin tools) a very strong footprint in use even if it's no longer the hype-of-the-month.
TIOBE index is a junk metric (I'm surprised so many technical people seem to buy into it; it's the worst kind of easy to get a precise number, hard to demonstrate that that number has any more than a very distant relationship to anything meaningful, kind of metric that, IME, tech people mock bad managers for buying into.)
That said, Ruby’s got (via Rails and other web frameworks, and via various testing and admin tools) a very strong footprint in use even if it's no longer the hype-of-the-month.