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by nexneo 4126 days ago
Exactly right any language could have worked, and we didn't replaced Ruby, just few part of our big application is rewritten.

I did in Go not because of language is better, ecosystem and culture is better but not language part. I will suggest you to do small real life project in Go.
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pjmlp 4126 days ago
I wasn't hitting at Go, just making the point any language that native code compilers will do.

Thanks for the suggestion, maybe you should check my history.

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nexneo 4126 days ago
Sure. I did :) One question: Why you mentioned RubyMotion as alternative for server application?
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pjmlp 4126 days ago
Sadly it is not an alternative, because they only sell it for mobile apps.

RubyMotion as an AOT compiler would bring many of the same benefits in terms of performance, while staying in Ruby.

Apparently only Lisp, Scheme and Dylan enjoy the existence of AOT compilers in their toolchains.

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