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I agree for Shopify a rewrite would not make sense. But I think writing new features, or rewriting some critical paths of the codebase in a new language could

I agree for Shopify a rewrite would not make sense. But I think writing new features, or rewriting some critical paths of the codebase in a new language could make sense. It's atleast a valid question. They are clearly already spending a lot of resources optimizing Ruby code to match their demands. My question is at what point does continuing with Ruby become trying to force a round peg into a square hole?

joelbluminator 6y ago
They're still mostly a Ruby monolith afaik, so you can't add new features in Go on top of that. Each company and what works for them. > They are clearly already spending a lot of resources optimizing Ruby code to match their demands. I think the work on Graal is a VERY long term investment. They can grow to become a 200B company even if none of that work succeeds. Also, I think it's just one guy Shopify is hiring to do that but I may be wrong, so definitely not a showstopper for Shopify :)