Considering that it's been doing so successfully at volume for just over 15 years, I think their language choice was fine.
replyThis ought to change your mind about Ruby!
replyWhy is that terrifying?
replySome folks don't like shipping
replyive 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.
replyThe only one that worked on me wasn't even elitist in its framing.
replyTry TypeScript! It makes your JavaScript better!
That was enough for me.
> these companies don't function in spite of their technology choices.
replyshows you never worked at "big succesful companies".
It's not particularly terrifying. Some people really just don't like Ruby.
replyThe systems have to be written in some kind of programming language, and I think Ruby is a perfectly fine choice.
replyNot 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.
replyThe 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”.
replyStripe has dabbled in Golang. There is also a growing Java monorepo.
Stripe uses Sorbet which, in my experience, increases LOC.
replyThings can always be worse. It could be PHP, for example.
replyFacebook runs in it, so I think the language itself is probably a fine choice.
replyIt's almost like other factors than language choice are more important :)
replyIf you think that's terrifying, imagine all of the essential code written in COBOL and FORTRAN.
replySkippy the Intern, now retired these thirty years...
I’d hardly call Sorbet Ruby :)
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