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"the simple fact that Ruby is really, really slow"... it's that slow that Shopify and Stripe don't mind building their global scale products in Ruby.
by stanislavb 6y ago
"the simple fact that Ruby is really, really slow"... it's that slow that Shopify and Stripe don't mind building their global scale products in Ruby.
- Nextgrid 6y agoSlowness seems to be an overblown issue when it comes to the backend. Hardware is cheap compared to developers and app servers scale horizontally by default; if a language is actually slow but otherwise provides good productivity it's almost always cheaper to throw more hardware at it than move to a "faster" language (there's a reason we don't typically write web apps in C).