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		jupp0r on Nov 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video] These two have lots of backend code that's not Ruby. Rails is great at what it does and it's not optimal for many other use cases.

AlchemistCamp on Nov 13, 2023 [–]

I'm sure things have changed post-acquisition, but for a very long time Github's back-end languages were just Ruby and C.

jupp0r on Nov 13, 2023 | [–]

Turns out C is better at some problems than Ruby after all? This was my point.

AlchemistCamp on Nov 13, 2023 | | [–]

Agreed on that. My point was just that even at massive scale, the vast majority of the backend was written in Ruby.

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