VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has.

GitHub is okay-ish.

But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto.

Outlook is also a joke.

Excel got better IMO.

No strong opinions for other apps.

> Outlook is also a joke

My Outlook sometimes flickers and instead of showing the email list, it shows the calendar. It only corrects itself after I mouse over

> VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has.

vscode isn't popular for being vscode

there was already atom back in the days

vscode became popular because it was "relatively" "faster" than atom, and was better at being hackable

vscode is now insanely popular due to its ecosystem, the people and their plugins made vscode popular

Re: Microsoft/Office 365 - I was referring to their development to shift to cloud first strategy. They still haven’t made online collaboration as seamless as Google yet - but given them not wanting to break backward (onprem/file) capability, they are doing a good job.

I do agree Teams is trying to be a jack of all trades master of none at the moment.

Do you mean the web-based Outlook? I find the traditional desktop Outlook is unbeaten for business email/calendar. Strongly agree on Teams though.

Curious - what is your preferred Git platform? We're about to migrate away from Bitbucket for... a lot of reasons.

I use GitLab professionally.

It used to be light years ahead of GitHub, but with actions, code spaces, private repos and Jira like stuff being released in GH that's not the case anymore.

IMO you can't go wrong with either GitLab or GitHub nowadays, both are great at what they do.

I think they are still operate pretty much like a separate entity. But yes, I really wish there are at least 2 full time compiler developer at Github working on RubyVM.

Stripe is probably the second biggest Ruby place after GitHub. They have pretty good sized teams working on Ruby tools like Sorbet.

Shopify is the biggest Ruby company if you measure market value, they are currently worth 185 billion. It's not that far from Oracle's market value.

Yes but the more the better :). We need to leverage all the resources we could get our hands on. Instead of having Shopify / Stripe funding all the work on JIT and other Core Ruby development.

A dynamically typed language like ruby doesn't sound as the language of choice for processing sensitive transactions without data loss. Ofc possible, but it sounds scary.

If it ain't broke why dedicate complicated time to fixing it?

They contribute a lot to Rails though.

yup Github and Shopify are a big part of RoR