> I'm using Ruby for a startup because it's 10x more productive for building a webapp versus a compiled language I’ve been a Ruby/Rails dev for about 14 years.

> I'm using Ruby for a startup because it's 10x more productive for building a webapp versus a compiled language I’ve been a Ruby/Rails dev for about 14 years. Just started working on Java projects at work and… holy shit, it slows down the entire organization and they don’t even seem to know how much of it is because of the terrible immovable object that is the mountain of Java code they made. Before this experience I had always assumed that rigid types alone would be a boon… oh how wrong I was. The rigidity just leads to people writing 10x more garbage to get simple things done, which causes a 10x worse maintainability problem. The rate at which I hear “oh lol just another NPE” is astounding, how is this constant occurrence not interpreted as a complete failure of the “type” system???? Maybe a crack team of Java Experts wouldn’t do this, but the reality of most software companies is that people of ALL skill levels are writing code. Poorly written Ruby is a whole lot easier to figure out (as an expert of Ruby) than 10x the amount of code in Java. I hate this.