alt Hacker News> little do they know Ruby is a slower language than Go
Isn't it generally expected for a feature-packed interpreted language to be slower than a minimal compiled language?
> little do they know Ruby is a slower language than Go
Isn't it generally expected for a feature-packed interpreted language to be slower than a minimal compiled language?
Ruby is compiled, it JIT compiles the code, in theory it should be on par with go once the compiler works out all the code paths, in a long-running application, you should expect the whole codebase to be compiled eventually. More:
https://www.codemancers.com/blog/rubys-jit-journey