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Hack? I wonder if Shopify will ever give up on trying to fix Ruby and instead, do what FB did with PHP and just create their own derivative (Ruby) language tha
by tiffanyh 3y ago
Hack?
I wonder if Shopify will ever give up on trying to fix Ruby and instead, do what FB did with PHP and just create their own derivative (Ruby) language that addresses their needs better.
- kayodelycaon 3y agoWhy? Shopify was able to work with the core team and make the whole language better. Facebook has far more employees and wasn’t going to get PHP improved to their liking.
- tiffanyh 3y agoThe irony is that PHP has improved massively in perf vs the relative gains of Ruby. https://onlinephp.io/benchmarks https://onlinephp.io/benchmarks https://serpapi.com/blog/benchmarking-ruby-3-1-yjit-ruby-2-7/amp/ https://serpapi.com/blog/benchmarking-ruby-3-1-yjit-ruby-2-7...
- vidarh 3y agoApart from measuring very different things, the PHP page compares PHP releases over something like 25 years vs. about 3 years of Ruby releases. Look at PHP 7.2 onwards, which is a similar timeframe, and the improvements are fairly modest.