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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 perform

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 2y ago
Performance is worth infinitely less than the sheer developer productivity of Ruby, at least when used by experienced engineers capable of restraint.
- celdon25 2y ago
  I was only extremely productive with it after adopting Sorbet, but still got by without it at first.
- igouy 2y ago
  So it's the people not the programming language?
bhaak 2y 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 2y 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 2y ago
    And also YJIT has landed, which should help.