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I get your point, but it's a blog post by a Ruby & Rails core member, published on a Ruby-oriented blog named "Rails at Scale", with a particular audience in mi

I get your point, but it's a blog post by a Ruby & Rails core member, published on a Ruby-oriented blog named "Rails at Scale", with a particular audience in mind, and is written as a response to an ongoing discussion in the Ruby community. In context, I think the title is fine. But, for those without the context the title may be misleading. At no point is the goal to convince people to throw away C and switch to Ruby for everything.

starbugs 3y ago
This title in particular encourages sharing the article out of context, because it is a bit sensational. That's why the title is so important. If an article is aimed at a particular audience only and could be misunderstood otherwise, that's a good indication that the title should reflect that fact. (As the revised one does.) As a sidenote: This submission has been tried multiple times on HN and it would very likely not have been successful here without the sensational title. [0] 0. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=ruby%20outperforms%20c&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...