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This ain't a good defense for Ruby server-side. They're working on speed, okay. is that not where the bottleneck is? Perl 6 is coming too I guess Because on pr

This ain't a good defense for Ruby server-side. They're working on speed, okay. is that not where the bottleneck is? Perl 6 is coming too I guess Because on production servers we have 10 Ruby front ends for a single Postgres database that barely sweats. At the same time, we have a lively Hibernate setup in crufty java using 4 front end servers and overloads our database regularly. Ruby is slow as hell, to the point that it costs a lot more money to run servers vs ancient J2EE junk. V3 speed increases will be interesting if it's 10x+ . If not, Ruby is dead. Even Python and it's crazyness is far faster and somewhat easier to use. Ruby is doomed

intertextuality 8y ago
It all comes down to what you're doing. To put it another way: it depends. Obviously, writing logic in Go can boost performance, but one needs to assess that that's where the slowdown actually is first. One can also eke out a lot more speed from ruby/rails than you'd think! [0] For a lot of people (and businesses), Ruby more than suffices. If it doesn't, other languages always exist. So no, Ruby is far from doomed–one just needs to evaluate the pros and cons of Ruby vs something like Go, etc. Ruby with Rails isn't hype or sexy technology, but it is quite mature and robust. [0]: https://www.speedshop.co/ https://www.speedshop.co/