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Re:Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI by amomchilov on Thursday February 13, 2025 @12:36AM (#43032985)
The unrefactorable ball of mud problem is real, which is why both Stripe and Shopify have highly statically typed code bases (via Sorbet).

Btw Stripe uses Ruby, but not Rails.

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Re:Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI by byroot on Thursday February 13, 2025 @01:54AM (#43033374)
I'd say sorbet largely adds to the mud, but to each their own.
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Re:Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI by m00x on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:02PM (#43053037)
Some Stripe services are Rails.

Having types helps, but it's not a necessity. When I was at Chime we faired very well with just rails and no types.

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