I am hoping we have even more surprises in Rails World in two weeks time.

And may be a glimpse of ZJIT? It is not just Ruby and Rails has gotten faster, CPU performance and core count has been getting cheaper.

One thing I forgot to post last time in the GitHub CEO step down thread. I am hoping Microsoft won't force GitHub to move away from Ruby Rails. I remember there were some noise early on during the acquisition M$ wanted to get rid of it.

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FinnLobsien 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Re: GitHub.

IF they do a rewrite, that should buy us at least 5 years, based on my experience with large-scale rewrites lol

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givemeethekeys 5 days ago | parent [-]

Even with AI?

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throwawayoldie 5 days ago | parent [-]

In that case, it'll only take 8 years.

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mrits 5 days ago | parent [-]

We need a new 80/20 rule. I propose a 90/0. You get 90% done quickly and the other 0% over the next few years .

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mdaniel 5 days ago | parent [-]

We actually already have one of those, and it still fits just for a different reason:

> The first 90% is easy/fast/cheap, it's the second 90% that's hard/slow/expensive

Since most of the generative approaches treat code as disposable, then the second (and subsequent) 90% approaches just throw it away and start over. It's like all the awesome parts about a rewrite, with all the awesome parts about "it was rewritten because no one understood it"

	▲	throwawayoldie 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I always heard it as "The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the time, the remaining 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time." But yeah.
	▲	mrits 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ha! I've never heard of that one

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tekknolagi 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Re: ZJIT: all development is happening in the open in the zjit folder of the ruby/ruby repo. You can follow along!

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stackskipton 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Having been on Microsoft acquisition before, generally they encourage .Net usage for greenfield if possible but it’s pretty gentle encouragement. I’ve heard they are getting pretty pushy against C++.

	▲	voidfunc 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Really depends on the org you're in and what ecosystems you need to work with. Almost everything we write is Go based at Microsoft in my org.