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At least in ruby theres mayor code bases using stripes sorbet and the official RBS standard for type hints. Notably its big code bases with large amounts of developers, fitting in with the trend most people in this discussion point to.


this sounds so different from rubys new JIT that - i think - came in around the same time and is bringing huge performance benefits.

team size sounds similar but it's mostly full time people from shopify and other interested parties (see https://railsatscale.com/2025-01-10-yjit-3-4-even-faster-and... and similar)


I agree. It seems like an effort to criticize issues of late stage capitalism without sounding like a socialist.

There’s also strong overlaps with Varoufakis’ “Technofeudalism”, I.e. construction companies living in autodesks fiefdom.


While is share the praise for Ruby's hash I find the argument that it might be daunting for a developer (of any persuasion) to pick between a `SortedList` and `Dictionary` worrying.


Looking forward to the CCC talk of somebody using a homemade low powered xray machine to retrieve the code without cutting the note.


Besides the badly written smart contract I'm also struggling to grok what exactly is Dutch about this auction. It's not that the price of something keeps dropping until somebody makes a bid.

Instead everybody pays the lowest bid? Does everybody get a token as well? Why would anybody bid more than the reserve im this model?


  Many systems using other “preferred languages” also
  implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine,
  CPython); we don’t hear complaints about it, because these
  languages have a rapport for heavy lifting and parallel tasks.
As a python developer i almost fell off my chair when i read this section. We don't hear complaints about the GIL in python? I love the article's tone in general but that's some heavy Gell-Mann Amnesia or filtered news sources :)


Hey guys, I'm the author of this article and I have been rueing the day I ever said this. I have since received complaints and/or restraining orders from a number of Python developers. I truly apologize, that one is on me, I made a classic mistake of writing about what I hear about instead of what's actually out there, for which I repent. We live and we learn! This is my first article so I gotta start somewhere. I've edited the article to avoid further contact with rage-filled Python devs:

"Note: Many systems using other “preferred languages” also implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine, CPython). Python has a reputation for heavy machine learning lifting and parallel tasks. However, when it comes down to actually looking at the benchmarks, the constraints, and the underlying implementations, its quite hard to pull out any statistically significant metric or distinction between how Python and Ruby handle these tasks — what Python has in advantage over Ruby is its popularity, vast library, and very active data-science community, moreso than any benchmark. Ruby is a little faster in some things, Python is a little faster in others.

Edited: I previously had a line in here saying that we “don’t hear about” Python’s GIL, to which I received a number of messages from Python developers who assure me that it is all they talk about. Sorry Python!"


There's scarcely a Python thread on here that doesn't mention the GIL. Or version 2. Or whitespace. It's like generics for Go and framework churn for JS.


weird game theory view here, would you not be incentivized to never finish the book because people might be waiting for that 1.0 moment to cancel their subscription?


As much as i like lunduke usually, i find it a bit unreflected to just say "we are stupid for banning our founders" without acknowledging anything they might have done wrong. I do agree that the pitchforks approach to public disagreements should not be our (or anybodies) default. But "leave our founders alone" is not a policy I'd personally subscribe too either.

Also vaguely poking fun at therapy as if it was a punishment for something is just plain immature.


They avoid mentioning it in the blog, but besides the charge per usage (minutes), there's also a flat 15USD fee per user/month: https://circleci.com/pricing/


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