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Ruby is not alone in this. Go shares similar philosophy to just half-ass the implementation. Well, at least it's not as brittle and impossibly slow as Ruby.
by neonsunset 2y ago
Ruby is not alone in this. Go shares similar philosophy to just half-ass the implementation. Well, at least it's not as brittle and impossibly slow as Ruby.
- jupp0r 2y agoDo you have an example? My impression of the Go standard library is that they picked a pretty decent compromise of abstraction levels over the various OS facilities they use under the hood.
- wk_end 2y agoThe classic reference here is “I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride”: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
- jupp0r 2y ago"Ruby is not alone in this" Agreed. My point was rather that this is not Ruby's only dangerous shortcut.