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I like the cute expression that you're referencing, but for a majority of projects, to a major extent, language choice greatly matters. If you're getting 10x p
by mjolk 10y ago
I like the cute expression that you're referencing, but for a majority of projects, to a major extent, language choice greatly matters. If you're getting 10x performance from Go over RoR, that's 10 fewer servers you need to deal with and a lot less thinking about network concurrency.
- throwawayish 10y agoMeanwhile, most web applications are content with 1/10th of the computing resources that are deployed for them, regardless of language or framework.
- mjolk 10y agoThat's totally fair, but the underlying suggestion that "language choice isn't really important to scaling" is more what I was addressing.