Amen. This post reminds me of another post I recently saw on HN, in which the author (someone with an Erlang background) lays out all sorts of reasons why he c

Amen. This post reminds me of another post I recently saw on HN, in which the author (someone with an Erlang background) lays out all sorts of reasons why he chose Ruby for a highly concurrent application that launches lots of (heavyweight) threads. Upon seeing the link on HN, my first thought was, Ruby!!?? But then I read the post and the reasons were all very sensible and practical-minded, so in that case Ruby was arguably a much better choice than Erlang, Go, Scala, Rust, etc. for a highly concurrent application. Edit: here's the post I mentioned about Ruby being used for a highly concurrent application: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394450