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Nobody is champing at the bit to rewrite the OS stack in Ruby or Python.
by logicchains 1y ago
Nobody is champing at the bit to rewrite the OS stack in Ruby or Python.
- woodruffw 1y agoWho said they are? The GP's language is "foundation of an entire industry"; I would argue that you and I could both find plenty of industries that directly attribute their foundations to those languages.
- dingi 1y agoIn what way Ruby and Python are foundations for entire industries? As I see, these two are just surface level languages which mostly use C/C++ under the hood.
- woodruffw 1y agoRails and Django alone account for a disproportionate number of current software service companies. That’s just what immediately comes to mind. “It’s X under the hood” is true, but only in the same sense that “computer programs are made of coffee” is true. You can’t easily replace a Ruby stack with a Python one just because both have a reference C implementation; that’s the entire point of having high level languages with rich abstractions.