Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab
by davidw on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:39PM
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The advantages of some particular insight into a business problem far outweigh the particulars of programming languages, for most problem domains.
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If you’re in the business of developing enterprise apps (and that’s where the money for dev tools resides) then moving quickly without breaking things is critical in your formative years. Static typing goes a long way to facilitate that.
It’s by no means a panacea but it does eliminate an entire class of error and obviate a related class of unit testing.