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Gitlab has lots of problems. It runs slowly unless you throw tons of hardware at it, and has lots of bugs. Our devops guy burns tons of time keeping it running. There are too many parts to it; too many services. And ruby is just not meant to be used in production stuff, particularly not of that scale.

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What is Ruby meant to be used for, if not production software?

[bin0]

Rapid prototyping. I'm not talking entirely out of my behind here; I've done ruby before. It's a joy to write, especially compared to something like Java. Unfortunately, that convenience and syntactic sugar comes at a price - performance.

Ruby is like a back-of-the-napking sketch, almost: it takes nothing to get started, you can just jump in and start writing. Other languages are closer to gradations of a proper engineering diagram, the sort of thing you draw up once you've fleshed out your idea a little and want to scale.

As much as I hate bothering with a proper diagram, it's very hard to scale based on napkin sketches.