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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by yowlingcat on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:36PM (#31402248)
Where would the community, mindshare, and hiring pool be? Or would you have to innovate on how you come up with that (on top of your core product) to accomplish anything there?
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by cultofmetatron on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:55PM (#31403032)
community is small but extremely dedicated.

I agree that the hiring pool is small but if you want go level performance, metaprogramming and developer productivity, common lisp was your best option.

Shopify went with ruby. not a terrible language but it did come at teh cost of performance.

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