Re:Is Rails still relevant in 2018?
by eropple on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:38AM
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> Having the hardline opinion that Ruby or rails is slow is plain ol’ ignorance.
I like Ruby quite a lot. Rails can pound sand, but Ruby is one of the better inventions in the software space. But it is and always is slow on every axis you could want save "developer productivity" and arguing against it is arguing against the tide.
It is not "ignorance" to assert this; it is data. It very well may be fast enough for your use case, and I don't know many people who would say it's not, but it is not and never fast.
(JRuby might improve this, but since few people use it, MRI is more specifically under discussion.)
I like Ruby quite a lot. Rails can pound sand, but Ruby is one of the better inventions in the software space. But it is and always is slow on every axis you could want save "developer productivity" and arguing against it is arguing against the tide.
It is not "ignorance" to assert this; it is data. It very well may be fast enough for your use case, and I don't know many people who would say it's not, but it is not and never fast.
(JRuby might improve this, but since few people use it, MRI is more specifically under discussion.)