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>> Performance isn’t great I see so much focus on this on web frameworks generally and it strikes me as almost always the wrong thing to optimise for. I don’t
by CraigJPerry 5y ago
>> Performance isn’t great
I see so much focus on this on web frameworks generally and it strikes me as almost always the wrong thing to optimise for.
I don’t know rails, the last time i tried it was circa 2007 and yet I’d confidently adopt it given the right situation.
If i had a choice between shipping features 2% sooner or saving $10k / year on server costs, I’d almost always choose sooner. Let’s be honest, a rails dev team is moving more than 2% faster than a java/c# web dev team.
If i have 5 devs and they’re all 2% more productive, that could be around $10k of free developer output but it’s more than that, developer productivity compounds. 75% off my server costs doesn’t.
- brigandish 5y agoThe problem with this comparison is that a language like Crystal shows that you don't have to give up the expressiveness for performance.