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That's why I mentioned Ruby on Rails. I think RoR-startups count as examples.
by apples_oranges 7y ago
That's why I mentioned Ruby on Rails. I think RoR-startups count as examples.
- mattmanser 7y agoYour username seems apt here, RoR was (is?) notorious for being a particularly "weak" language in terms of performance, but being a "powerful" one in terms of being a good template with good tooling/ecosystems. While perhaps functional languages are "powerful" in terms of performance[1], but "weak" because they have poor tooling/ecosystems, not even starting on the difficulty of recruiting, etc. [1] Though I personally think the author is exaggerating the benefits, while conveniently skipping over the massive ((neg))((ati)(ves))))) and incomprehensible code large functional code bases often produce