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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by benhoyt on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:46PM (#31402947)
This is definitely true, and I wouldn't fault anyone for using Ruby or Python to write the initial version of their startup. However, there's a difference between initial productivity and ongoing productivity (maintenance). Statically typed languages like Go and C++ are much easier to rework and refactor, because the compiler is checking types (not to mention typos).
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by bin_bash on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:04PM (#31403123)
That's why my language of choice is TypeScript, but I think Sorbet looks promising (haven't used it though)
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by nazka on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:00PM (#31403656)
Same. Next whatever startup or what I will do will be done in TypeScript(/JS) for the back end and front end. The ecosystem is so massive. And most of the time people will do a library, tool, database, or whatever, and the next language they will support to interact with it is JS/TS.
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by bin_bash on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:11PM (#31403736)
make sure you give Deno a test run too. I think it could be great for some applications already.

(Specifically cases where you want the project easy to jump into with almost no toolchain setup.)

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