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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by mountainriver on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:44PM (#31401664)
Yeah it’s an interesting point. Wrt Python, I’ve tried writing ML in many different languages for this exact reason, but at the end of the day community is everything.

Pythons community in the ML space is pretty incredible. Trying to recreate all the libraries in another language is no small task, then you also have the issue that Data Scientists don’t want to write in complex languages.

In events like this, improving the language can start to look like the best option.

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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by skrtskrt on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:10PM (#31402615)
Agreed, as someone who has largely done web services in Python, along with some data engineering

I work professionally in Golang now and I appreciate so many things about it, but when I go back to get something done for a personal project in Python, it is scary how much faster I can move.

Pydantic, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, requests, attrs, click... it's going to be a long time before other languages can hope to provide libraries with developer experiences that even come close.

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