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Re:Introducing Ruvy by petercooper on Friday October 20, 2023 @02:21PM (#37959645)
Shopify seems to love Ruby.

The founder, Tobi, is a Rubyist and was around the Rails world in its earliest days, so there's a sense of personal preference (plus a huge amount of existing code) at play beyond the technical merits.

Re:Introducing Ruvy by the_sleaze9 on Friday October 20, 2023 @03:03PM (#37960114)
Once you choose a path, the cost of switching compounds. And truthfully language makes much less of a difference than we engineers feel it does.

Can't say it better than Mr Jobs himself on this subject.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o