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I think a rewrite in Go would greatly increase our line-count. I think Elixir is very interesting but Phoenix still has some way to go before the ecosystem mat
by sytse 8y ago
I think a rewrite in Go would greatly increase our line-count.
I think Elixir is very interesting but Phoenix still has some way to go before the ecosystem matches that of Rails. Our Gemfile.lock https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/Gemfile.lock https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/Gemfile.... is more than 1000 lines!
- dieblur 8y agoLine-count really isn't a great way to measure developer productivity either though...
- Scarbutt 8y agoIt does measure bug count though.
- pdimitar 8y agoWell, that complexity is yours to evaluate -- what I am saying is that you are seriously underestimating the Elixir community. And our forum is full of people making this same admission and saying they regret not reaching for Elixir earlier! :) In the end, it's your call of course. But line-count doesn't say anything about a project's complexity. Go is quite verbose but with rigorous CI, tests, code reviews and linters, teams produce pretty hardcore and good software in Go, regularly.
- sytse 8y agoI agree Go produces great software. But for the same amount of functionality it tends to require more lines than ruby. I tend to favor the more expressive language http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Another thing is that there isn't a web framework like Rails in Go. Although I'm keeping an eye on go-micro and we plan to add that as a template soon.
- pdimitar 8y agoYeah, fully agreed on that. Go just doesn't have as productive a framework like Rails. That's why I only use it for very small websites or even smaller API gateways. Or CLIs. Or network daemons. I am not disputing your choices. Just wanted to give you the quick and intuitive (and likely misinformed) immediate reaction that I had from the article. Keep making GitLab awesome. <3
- sytse 8y agoThank you! <3
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