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Why do people keep building large scale projects like this in languages in Ruby? I don't get it. It feels as if fundamentally you've built a prototype. We're
by throwaway22032 4y ago
Why do people keep building large scale projects like this in languages in Ruby?
I don't get it. It feels as if fundamentally you've built a prototype.
We're talking about messages and images, this sort of thing should be able to run on a 500mhz Celeron as long as the bandwidth is there.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago500Mhz? We don't need a super computer for this, we were playing 3D 6DOF games on 100Mhz pentiums with 16MB of RAM with mutliplayer over dialup. Our industry is a fucking joke.
- throwaway22032 4y agoYeah. It's honestly bizarre to me. I prototype in Python, and sure I might be lazy and use it for services that I know don't have to scale at all. But as soon as I point something towards the public internet it's just gotta be better than that.