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Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are on
by alberth 5y ago
Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent.
(Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)
- cfeliped 5y agoVS Code is really great for the amount of features it has. GitHub is okay-ish. But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto. Outlook is also a joke. Excel got better IMO. No strong opinions for other apps.
- pineconewarrior 5y agoCurious - what is your preferred Git platform? We're about to migrate away from Bitbucket for... a lot of reasons.
- cfeliped 5y agoI use GitLab professionally. It used to be light years ahead of GitHub, but with actions, code spaces, private repos and Jira like stuff being released in GH that's not the case anymore. IMO you can't go wrong with either GitLab or GitHub nowadays, both are great at what they do.
- alberth 5y agoRe: Microsoft/Office 365 - I was referring to their development to shift to cloud first strategy. They still haven’t made online collaboration as seamless as Google yet - but given them not wanting to break backward (onprem/file) capability, they are doing a good job. I do agree Teams is trying to be a jack of all trades master of none at the moment.
- d0100 5y ago> Outlook is also a joke My Outlook sometimes flickers and instead of showing the email list, it shows the calendar. It only corrects itself after I mouse over
- GSGBen 5y agoDo you mean the web-based Outlook? I find the traditional desktop Outlook is unbeaten for business email/calendar. Strongly agree on Teams though.
- Shadonototro 5y ago> VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has. vscode isn't popular for being vscode there was already atom back in the days vscode became popular because it was "relatively" "faster" than atom, and was better at being hackable vscode is now insanely popular due to its ecosystem, the people and their plugins made vscode popular
- JamesSwift 5y agoIf it ain't broke why dedicate complicated time to fixing it?
- joelbluminator 5y agoThey contribute a lot to Rails though.
- iamricks 5y agoyup Github and Shopify are a big part of RoR
- ksec 5y agoI think they are still operate pretty much like a separate entity. But yes, I really wish there are at least 2 full time compiler developer at Github working on RubyVM.
- nojvek 5y agoStripe is probably the second biggest Ruby place after GitHub. They have pretty good sized teams working on Ruby tools like Sorbet.
- carlhjerpe 5y agoA dynamically typed language like ruby doesn't sound as the language of choice for processing sensitive transactions without data loss. Ofc possible, but it sounds scary.
- joelbluminator 5y agoShopify is the biggest Ruby company if you measure market value, they are currently worth 185 billion. It's not that far from Oracle's market value.
- ksec 5y agoYes but the more the better :). We need to leverage all the resources we could get our hands on. Instead of having Shopify / Stripe funding all the work on JIT and other Core Ruby development.