Yes I’m obviously a huge Rust fan too but for this use case, at this point in time it doesn’t feel like an easy sell.
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Replying to @wezm
Well, if correctness and confidence in refactoring is the important point though, I _do_ see good chances, as many who do it have a great track record.
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Replying to @Argorak
For those than learn it yes. For folks used to working with a language like Ruby it’s a huge leap. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m running a weekly Rust session at work and trying to help people make that leap.
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Replying to @wezm
This is an unpopular opinion, but in a business context, I don't think this is a good case for too much focus on likes, wants and consensus. It's a question of goals and evaluations. I've seen too many projects fail by getting that wrong.
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Replying to @Argorak
By likes do you mean what the team like versus what is a good tool for building robust software that can sustain the business?
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Replying to @wezm
Yes. What the tool gives your company is the most important part of it.
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Replying to @Argorak
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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Replying to @wezm
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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The question is "what exactly does Ruby express" and it expresses a very good, dynamic ecosystem that quickly changeable. But that probably isn't playing it's strengths if you want to build for a settled API that has to stay stable for 5 years.
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Stock Ruby is for example terrible at concurrency and parallelism, so perhaps using it for a prototype for something and then quickly rewriting it in a language that's _better_ at that is a very feasible thing good engineering orgs do quite frequently :).
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Yes, this is an approach that I’m quite fond of.
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