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by ryansouza 2225 days ago
I guarantee the tradeoffs matter to them
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I’ve seen videos on Twitter of the Shopify CEO saying that Ruby’s performance literally doesn’t matter to them. That it’s easy enough to scale it horizontally and the benefits outweigh the cost.
Probably helps that Tobias also codes, not to mention contributed to Rails quite a bit.