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Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

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  • matltc
    Makes me miss Ruby. Been in node typescript recently. Everything is a callback returning a promise in some weird resolution chain, mapped and conditional types, having to define schemas for everything and getting yelled at by lsp all day... Oh then you gotta write react components and worry about rerenders and undefined behavior caused by impurity in state, npm, arcane .json configsVersus active record, mvc, yaml configs, bundler, beautiful syntax, robust and trivially extendable stdlib, amazing native debugging and cli docs out of the box, everything out of the box if you're using RailsI do not understand why it becomes increasingly irrelevant, especially in web development. I kinda get scripting--bash and python tend to run everywhere
  • chi_features
    > Given that the Intercom monolith CI runs with 1350 parallel workers by defaultWow! I'd love to hear more about how that's achieved
  • somewhatrandom9
    byroot sets a great example sharing his code optimization expertise. His blog has many great improvements like this. A 7x improvement in Dir.join and similar calls?! Thank you, byroot!
  • vidarh
    > More importantly, on CI systems it’s relatively common to check out code using git, and git doesn’t care about mtimegit doesn't care about mtime, but git maintains trees whose hash changes if any constituent part of the tree changes. It'd seem tempting to check for a .git and if present use the git tree to determine whether to invalidate the cache.
  • nixpulvis
    Would this be possible to mainline into ruby in some way?
  • DeathArrow
    What happened to Ruby? It was very successful at some point.Maybe kids started using JS exclusively. But what happened to older developers? Did they move over?Rails seemed to enable very fast prototyping and iteration. Isn't it still the case?I see PHP usage going down, but PHP doesn't seem to have any advantages over JS, .NET, Python or Go. While Ruby coupled with Rails promised easy and rapid development.Of course, Ruby might not be best suited for large code bases or microservices but probably 90% of the Internet are small to medium web sites.
  • blinkbat
    don't take this the wrong way, but -- people still use ruby?