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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by pjmlp on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:02PM (#31402544)
Which begs the point why use Ruby at all, plenty of AOT/JIT languages with great IDE tooling to chose from.
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by bin_bash on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:31PM (#31402810)
You think Shopify should've written their backend in Rust? I really wonder if people saying this have ever used Rust.

Ruby is great for developers of all skill to learn and be productive.

Rust is fast as the devil but you have to be a damn good coder to learn it. Even then I doubt you can be as productive managing memory all the damn time. It's a low-level language great at low-level things.

Ruby is a great option for Shopify. Rust is a great option for Firefox's Servo (though that project failed so maybe not).

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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by pjmlp on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:13AM (#31406619)
Where does "Plenty of AOT/JIT languages" imply Rust?
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by bin_bash on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:08AM (#31407770)
reading my comment from yesterday I don't know what I was thinking, apologies
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by brodock on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:48PM (#31419048)
cost of improving the language vs cost of hiring new people in different language, keep things stagnating for 10 years while rewrite is in progress, having to deal with talent exodus etc.
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