You have a team fluent in Ruby. You want to build a web application (backend) with a language that can give stronger guarantees about correctness and more confidence in refactoring but provides a more ergonomic experience than Go. What do you use?
Right. Thing is many are convinced that the time to market, and expressiveness of Ruby are business benefits that trump the features other tools can bring.
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Well, then stick with Ruby and don't switch to anything. You will never practically migrate away from it anyways, so all you can practically search for is a co-language that gives you different guarantees.
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to be clear I’m not the one making this decision. I am the one who would like to be able to write software knowing that it’s not going to unexpectedly blow up at runtime. We’ll see how it plays out. - 5 more replies
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