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by wredue 906 days ago
The better question is

“Why would I pointlessly accept this clear case of massive technical debt for literally no reason what-so-ever?”

Rails does not present any sort of promise that go does not also present, so just saying “yeah, I’ll handcuff my app like this cause I feel like using Ruby” is, frankly, absurd.

When you ask the right questions, you never land on Ruby, and that’s why Ruby continues to decline.

1 comments

It depends on the metrics you care about.

Ruby is concise compared to Go though. I like Go and but when I use it I have to accept that I'll write (and debug) at twice as much code as I would do in Ruby.

If you're mostly just loading data into a large fast cache, lines of code may be a more critical dimension than execution speed.

That's how well designed Rails projects work and you get most of what you need straight out of the box.