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> if you ignore performance

man, people are still parroting decade old, incorrect talking points I see.

Is ruby as performant as C, probably not, although, actually, in some cases, it outperforms C -> https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/

One of the largest ecommerce apps in the world runs ruby, shopify. Ruby now has a JIT, there has been insane effort put into making ruby faster.



> actually, in some cases, it outperforms C -> https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/

Bit of a clarification after reading the article - that article demonstrates a pure-Ruby implementation [0] outperforming a C extension [1], which is not what I had originally expected when first clicking on the link.

[0]: https://github.com/tenderlove/tinygql

[1]: https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/tree/master/graphql...




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