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Re:Claude Code is all you need by runako on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:31PM (#44870665)
Constructively, I would suggest some areas for study:

- relative speeds of programming languages (https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison)

- database indexing (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1108/how-does-database-i...)

- numbers everyone should know (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658138)

And note that databases are generally written in C.

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Re:Claude Code is all you need by mirkodrummer on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:10AM (#44872967)
Constructively, I just wanted to say that you can't claim that something is fast if speed is thanks to something else. OP said people thinks rails is slow but if you have a fast query it's a solved problem. Even python would be fast in this instance with an optimized query
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Re:Claude Code is all you need by cultofmetatron on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @01:17PM (#44879270)
> Even python would be fast in this instance with an optimized query

I wasn't trying to argue that ruby is slow (it objectively is). I was arguing that its slowness is irrelevant for most webapps because you should be offloading most of the load to your database with efficient queries.

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