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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by pdimitar on Saturday July 08, 2023 @06:07AM (#36642982)
People are starting to recognize benefits of even gradual typing en masse these days, while some of us knew it for 10+ years. Not to be an elitist, I've made plenty of other mistakes and I am trying to not look down on anyone, but to discount types is not a well-informed take IMO.

That's what I mostly meant by saying Ruby is behind Elixir and Golang. And mind you, Elixir is strongly but dynamically typed and I still find it much better than Ruby.

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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by DoesntMatter22 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:34AM (#36645374)
I'm not discounting types at all. I started in strongly typed languages and only gradually moved to dynamic languages. For massive apps generally dynamic languages are not good.

However, Ruby also has a lot of creature comforts that Elixir and GO don't have. Maybe there wouldn't be a product at all with GO or Elixir. It's hard to say.

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