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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by wmfiv on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:08PM (#31402587)
Because you already have a $50B business that runs on the slow thing. So from a risk and cost/benefit analysis making the slow thing fast sounds a lot better than "rewrite everything".
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by mike_hock on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:22PM (#31403279)
More importantly, you had to hack shit together as fast as possible to get a dice roll at the $50B business or bust game.
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