ive yet to see a compelling elitist programming language opinion. especially when used at big successful companies. these companies don't function in spite of their technology choices.
Not denying that Ruby is a perfectly fine choice but within the article itself it says that Stripe runs the world's largest Ruby codebase so certainly it might be testing the constraints of the language.
The thing I am interested is that I don't suppose that Stripe always had these many LOC's and so I would be curious to know if at any point as the codebase was increasing, were they looking at other new languages which were coming like golang or rust which was more suited for their work or not and what were there decisions/thinking process to continue using ruby.
Considering that it's been doing so successfully at volume for just over 15 years, I think their language choice was fine.
This ought to change your mind about Ruby!
Why is that terrifying?
Some folks don't like shipping
ive yet to see a compelling elitist programming language opinion. especially when used at big successful companies. these companies don't function in spite of their technology choices.
The only one that worked on me wasn't even elitist in its framing.
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That was enough for me.
> these companies don't function in spite of their technology choices.
shows you never worked at "big succesful companies".
It's not particularly terrifying. Some people really just don't like Ruby.
The systems have to be written in some kind of programming language, and I think Ruby is a perfectly fine choice.
Not denying that Ruby is a perfectly fine choice but within the article itself it says that Stripe runs the world's largest Ruby codebase so certainly it might be testing the constraints of the language.
The thing I am interested is that I don't suppose that Stripe always had these many LOC's and so I would be curious to know if at any point as the codebase was increasing, were they looking at other new languages which were coming like golang or rust which was more suited for their work or not and what were there decisions/thinking process to continue using ruby.
LOC doesn’t have much to do with the “constraints of the language”.
Stripe has dabbled in Golang. There is also a growing Java monorepo.
Stripe uses Sorbet which, in my experience, increases LOC.
Things can always be worse. It could be PHP, for example.
Facebook runs in it, so I think the language itself is probably a fine choice.
It's almost like other factors than language choice are more important :)
If you think that's terrifying, imagine all of the essential code written in COBOL and FORTRAN.
Skippy the Intern, now retired these thirty years...
I’d hardly call Sorbet Ruby :)
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