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I never thought we'd get to the 3x of the 3x3 project for ruby 3, but looks like things are well beyond that already - which is great! This should effectively
by meesterdude 9y ago
I never thought we'd get to the 3x of the 3x3 project for ruby 3, but looks like things are well beyond that already - which is great!
This should effectively kill the "ruby is slow" misnomer. One may find other languages better suited for certain particular uses, but this speed increase great expands the applicability of Ruby in the greater problem space.
Just because Ruby & Ruby on Rails have ceded popularity to javascript, does not mean that either have stopped improving. We usually abandon frameworks and languages because they have not kept up with the times or we outgrow them, but as time passes a ruby/rails stack becomes an even more effective approach to software development. With ActiveStorage and talk of push notification support built-in, and now this 6x(!) speed increase on 2.6 (and we're not even at ruby 3 yet!) makes for an effective one-man-band framework that normally require a whole team to deliver on. Amazing.