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While there is indeed a Ruby on Rails tax, Github is also written in Rails as well (https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/building-github-wi
by hosh 9mo ago
While there is indeed a Ruby on Rails tax, Github is also written in Rails as well (https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/building-github-with-ruby-and-rails/ https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/bu...)
So is Shopify and Stripe. They can scale.
These days, if I want something that has some of the ergonomics of Rails in a platform I know can scale better than Ruby, I reach for Elixir/Phoenix.
- jeremyjh 9mo agoGithub can get pretty sluggish as well; if you have a pull request with lots of comments page loads begin to take a dozen seconds or more. AI code review bots make it painful for humans to use it.
- ahartmetz 9mo agoEverything in GitHub is slow. Very simple stuff, too. It's annoying. In any case, it's a closed source, underfeatured, Microsoft owned platform for Open Source software, so what are we doing there anyway?
- hosh 8mo agoResume building, for one. Discoverability, for another. Redmonk covered how much of a game changer Github was back in the early days. I am personally excited about radicle — a local-first, distributed forge.