> I'm more interested in the trade offs they evaluated on this front, or if its such that 500K is just a "hail mary see what happens" situation It's actually

> I'm more interested in the trade offs they evaluated on this front, or if its such that 500K is just a "hail mary see what happens" situation It's actually much more than 500K. I think they have at least 6 very senior devs working on it¹. I think 3 million $ per year is a very conservative estimation. That said, it's definitely very mysterious what their analysis was. ¹=https://shopify.engineering/porting-yjit-ruby-compiler-to-rust https://shopify.engineering/porting-yjit-ruby-compiler-to-ru...