alt Hacker NewsA major financial processing company writes it money handling systems in Ruby.
Terrifying.
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sixo • yesterday at 9:18 PM
This ought to change your mind about Ruby!
sunrunner • yesterday at 9:21 PM
Things can always be worse. It could be PHP, for example.
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sikozu • yesterday at 8:44 PM
The systems have to be written in some kind of programming language, and I think Ruby is a perfectly fine choice.
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msla • yesterday at 11:14 PM
If you think that's terrifying, imagine all of the essential code written in COBOL and FORTRAN.
Skippy the Intern, now retired these thirty years...
semiquaver • yesterday at 9:09 PM
I’d hardly call Sorbet Ruby :)
benbristow • yesterday at 9:04 PM
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Considering that it's been doing so successfully at volume for just over 15 years, I think their language choice was fine.