Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
by bin_bash on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:37PM
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I prefer Go to Ruby so I don't know what you're trying to argue. I just said it requires a lot of boilerplate and that makes it harder to be productive. Technology choice is about trade-offs.
It doesn't mean a project is doomed simply because it chose Go. That said, Heroku tried to do a major Go rewrite of their entire backend and the project failed miserably.
Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
by melony on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:46PM
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What's the story behind Heroku's rewrite?
Gitlab's history with $faster_language has at least some background documentation, e.g. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/04/12/a-brief-history-of-....
They seemed to have liked it, as at least a couple of other services are written in $faster_language - gitlab-shell and gitaly (probably, several others).
There may be more static languages nowadays, but they're very young - I think in real world, there wasn't, pragmatically, a lot of choice, although today's young languages are... still young :)