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PHP had the benefit of Facebook pouring money into it. Same with JS and Google. No company has done something comparable for Ruby.
by noyoudumbdolt 4y ago
PHP had the benefit of Facebook pouring money into it. Same with JS and Google. No company has done something comparable for Ruby.
- weaksauce 4y agoshopify is putting up a lot of money and resources into ruby.
- theredfury 4y agohttps://shopify.engineering/shopify-ruby-at-scale-research-investment https://shopify.engineering/shopify-ruby-at-scale-research-i...
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoYJIT, Ruby's new JIT compiler, is from Shopify.
- alberth 4y agoLet’s not forget that GitHub is a giant Rails app that Microsoft runs. Microsoft is also one of the best language/compiler company in the world.
- chucke 4y agoMicrosoft didn't start pouring bucks into improving ruby yet. Their focus has recently been on JS, C# and python.
- theappsecguy 4y agoReally wish Microsoft would contribute/donate to ruby/rails platform even more than Github does already. They can afford to.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- osrec 4y agoI believe Stripe use Ruby. Perhaps they'll fund its improvement...
- iloveitaly 4y agoStripe has done a lot of work on a ruby type system (https://sorbet.org https://sorbet.org) and has been working on a ruby compiler as well (https://sorbet.org/blog/2021/07/30/open-sourcing-sorbet-compiler https://sorbet.org/blog/2021/07/30/open-sourcing-sorbet-comp...)
- alberth 4y agoThat’s not exactly accurate. FB went off and did their own thing. PHP gains were independent of FB.
- yucky 4y agoThis is surprising to hear, considering how big Shopify has gotten and how much resources they've put into Ruby.
- bfgoodrich 4y ago[dead]