Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
by clpm4j on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:49PM
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One plausible reason in my mind is that startups tend to hire devs on the younger side, and it seems (from my perspective in the USA) that most new-ish grads come out of school having done most of their programming in Python. Plus some Javascript if they've dabbled in web dev building hobby projects.
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Ruby/Rails optimizes for developer productivity. Once you prove yourself as a company and your product reaches a scale where you cant just throw $$$ at the problem, you’d be in a good spot to then hire folks to start rewriting parts in $languageofchoice.
Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
by pjmlp on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:13AM
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40 years ago those newly hires would have only learned BASIC.
Except at least BASIC had compilers available, and Darthmound BASIC was originally designed with what we call JIT nowadays, even if that wasn't a thing on 8 bit home computers.