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Re:Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant? by kenhwang on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:56PM (#31172378)
Not sure Go is a very good example here, compiled languages have a huge maintainability advantage in monoliths (at the cost of compile time).

Ruby/Rails' culture is a huge contributor to why Rails monoliths are so much more difficult to maintain compared to other dynamic languages. Things in Rubyland just love to be global and manipulate things globally and go out of their way to make that behavior hidden.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant? by jaredcwhite on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:15PM (#31173276)
"Rails monoliths are so much more difficult to maintain"

I question that assertion. I have plenty of anecdotes which are the exact opposite: a Rails monolith is much easier to maintain compared to similar approaches in other languages.

"manipulate things globally"

Not sure what you mean by that to be quite honest. If you mean monkey-patching, that's generally been frowned upon except at the framework-level in the Ruby community for quite a while now.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant? by irvingprime on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:31PM (#31174871)
Global? In "Rubyland?" No. That's just not true. Not at all.
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