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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by cultofmetatron on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:21PM (#31402094)
it was used to write viaweb back in the 90's. The original saas that made Ycombinator possible.
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by zrail on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:29PM (#31402179)
Ok but that still doesn't make it mainstream or have a candidate pool. If those things don't matter then anything goes.
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by closeparen on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:01AM (#31406533)
An underrated feature of obscure languages is that they alienate people who think “$tool developer” is a an identity.
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