[Cowen]

> None of this will be welcome news to the army of fanatical Ruby developers who believe the language's syntax, its high developer productivity, and its overall philosophy far outweigh any performance disadvantage it might have compared to other languages.

I'm a relative newbie to the Ruby world, but as best I can tell, the Ruby and Rails communities both accepted long ago that they weren't made for Twitter levels of traffic.

Fact is, almost no one has Twitter levels of traffic besides Twitter. That's why Ruby and Rails are still so popular, because for ~99% of performance needs, they're more than capable and also extremely pleasant to work with.

[robryan]

Yeah, that line feels like lazy reporting to me. Any involvement at any in the Ruby community over the past few years and they would know that very few Ruby developers are concerned about the performance issues past a certain scale.

Seems like a no brainer that something that is a lot more strict and static will outperform something that has to deal with many more possibilities at runtime.

[mercurial]

> Yeah, that line feels like lazy reporting to me.

Now, now, it's The Register. The tabloid style is part of its identity.