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The vast majority of web code is waiting on a database, written in something eye-poppingly optimized, to push a string back to the client that asked for it. It'
by eropple 3y ago
The vast majority of web code is waiting on a database, written in something eye-poppingly optimized, to push a string back to the client that asked for it. It's "pick things up and put them down" plumbing and the delta between a Fast Language and a Slow Language will usually be swamped by connection latency.
There are of course places where it isn't appropriate to use a Ruby or a Python, sure. So don't. There are plenty of others where sniffing at them on the grounds of performance is making up a guy to get mad at.
- RagnarD 3y agoThere's more to the world than web oriented programming, and more possibilities for Ruby than Rails.
- eropple 3y agoOf course there's "more". I frequently write code that's going nowhere near a web server. My Github projects from my Ruby days is zero percent Rails, even--and it's a bunch of not-web stuff for which performance also wasn't an issue then, either. This isn't even some kind of well-actually gotcha, it's firmly a mainstream, obvious thing.