Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
by kaba0 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:39AM
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> effectively zero compile-time, one can achieve significantly tighter iteration cycles across a team
I don’t know what machines do people develop on, but on a fairly old laptop I get practically instantaneous iteration with incremental compiles with Rust, which is one of the slowest compiling languages. I honestly can’t imagine where is this supposed slow compiles in case of something like Java - like sure one can create some monstrosity of a build definition, but if some competent person wrote it it is just as fast as an interpreted language. Hell, it can do hot swapping just fine.
With dynamic, interpreted languages that have effectively zero compile-time, one can achieve significantly tighter iteration cycles across a team, ending up limited more by test suite runtime than by slow edit/recompile cycles. This leads to higher productivity across an engineering organization with a quickly evolving codebase. Not important for all use cases, but pretty critical for many.