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Ruby really is a powerful language it might not be the fastest or the strictest, but man is it expressive

• uticus 2y ago
  You are correct technically, but the implication that you must sacrifice speed or static typing is practically incorrect: faster on startup than .NET [0]. You can get benefits similar to static typing in for a while now [1]. [0] tested locally on a Linux environment [1] https://github.com/ruby/rbs#readme https://github.com/ruby/rbs#readme
  • neonsunset 2y ago
    > faster on startup than .NET [0] This is unlikely. When you invoke 'dotnet run' you're essentially going through the entire build system, it doesn't "just" launch the application - it also builds it or verifies that it doesn't need to. The actual startup time for compiled applications is <100ms for JIT (sometimes even <50ms) and ~10ms for AOT. Feel free to verify this with: dotnet new console --aot dotnet publish -o . hyperfine ./{name of the program} (make sure to use up-to-date version of the SDK, can be installed with sudo apt install dotnet9 / brew install dotnet) Of course performance of the code itself is going to have more than an order of magnitude of difference: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/comparable.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
  • igouy 2y ago
    > [Ruby] ... faster on startup than .NET Please share. fwiw C# aot in-process timing (0.029) about 0.005 faster than process timing. Ruby yjit in-process timing (1.565) about 0.083 faster than process timing. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/startup.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...