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Re:Zero to Production in Rust by steveklabnik on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:28PM (#27406934)
My very first production Rails app involved a C extension to do some heavy processing. Not all web applications are a thin UI over a database table (not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind you…)

The framework might not make you but that doesn’t mean your code won’t need such things.

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Re:Zero to Production in Rust by vips7L on Saturday June 05, 2021 @03:17PM (#27407777)
Isn't that just self inflicted though? You probably wouldn't have had to write C/threaded code if you chose a faster runtime like C#/Java/Go/Kotlin/Scala instead of ruby.
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Re:Zero to Production in Rust by steveklabnik on Saturday June 05, 2021 @04:17PM (#27408150)
At the time, Go/Kotlin didn't exist, Scala wasn't established, C# was Windows only, and Java and the JVM more generally were a thing that everyone was running to Ruby and Rails from for lots of reasons. Probably wouldn't have gotten the thing out the door if I had to do it in Java.
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