[0cf8612b2e1e]

Heh, not the person you were replying to, but I do not find the list of upsides compelling. These products at scale are mature (minus everyone’s list of personal bugs and misfeatures). Who cares how easy it is to pick up the language or developer happiness? A stricter language with more hard guarantees makes it possible to make changes to a big code base without fear.

[fredoliveira]

Fair! And yep, I too wish Ruby was stricter. I just happen to value it slightly less than some of the things I do get with the language.

[dismalaf]

> Who cares how easy it is to pick up the language or developer happiness?

Someone who's building a startup. Time to market and not succumbing to the desire to quit is #1 when you're building from the ground up.

You DGAF about making changes to a large codebase when you have no codebase...