alt Hacker NewsAdd to it that they need a compiler team for a Ruby JIT, due to the language choice to run an heavy load server infrastructure.
Add to it that they need a compiler team for a Ruby JIT, due to the language choice to run an heavy load server infrastructure.
And now we learn they use Swift and Kotlin to replace React with. So they are not replacing it with Ruby. I think they've hit the limits on Ruby (like twitter had on Scala).
P.s.: I find Kotlin "an acceptable typed-Ruby" with an industrial strength VM (the JVM) and two compiles to native stories (KMP and GraalVM-native).