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Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby by jb3689 on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:08AM (#23193025)
Was that an argument? It seems pretty clear that that is not the goal of Rails. I'm arguing here that "Rails can't be performant" is not necessarily true
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Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby by pdimitar on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:13AM (#23193075)
Sadly often this is the argument, yes.

I am glad to see that there are much more reasonable Rails devs out there compared to some rather toxic individuals around in HN at least!

A lot of tech can be fine-tuned to be very performant. My point was (still is) that there exist technologies today that allow you to delay your scaling decisions much further in future, compared to what a stock Rails app (without any performance tuning) will.

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Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby by jb3689 on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:39AM (#23193432)
+1 I definitely agree with this. Today there are many strong languages/frameworks that are just as productive or close to as productive as Rails, particularly with more modern languages. I was really impressed by Phoenix when I worked with that. It was very easy to scale out when the time came because of all the support OTP gave you and because of design decisions like immutability by default
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