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There is an enormous Ruby ecosystem completely outside of Rails.

• norman784 3y ago
  I would argue that the main selling point of using Ruby is Rails, for sure there are a lot of things you do in Ruby, but for sure in 2024 there are more performant alternatives.
  • stouset 3y ago
    Performance is worth infinitely less than the sheer developer productivity of Ruby, at least when used by experienced engineers capable of restraint.
    • celdon25 3y ago
      I was only extremely productive with it after adopting Sorbet, but still got by without it at first.
    • igouy 3y ago
      So it's the people not the programming language?
  • bhaak 3y ago
    One of the central arguments for Ruby is that performance is not everything (it was always slow compared to other programming languages) but programmer satisfaction is more important. I'd say Ruby is the programming language I want to program in but Rails pays the bills.
    • wlll 3y ago
      As someone who has worked in Rails performance for quite a long time now I suggest that Rails performance is largely fine. Most Rails performance problems are database and/or architecture issues and not with the language or framework.
      • regularfry 3y ago
        And also YJIT has landed, which should help.