Ruby

“And our vision here is that eventually you can operate all of rubric through this interface, that you do not need the UI and dashboards at all, that it will be a fully agentic experience.”

“Open source Japanese. There's only Japanese documentation around this time for it. I learned the language by looking at the source code.”

“And then Maths comes in and says like, no, no, Ruby is designed to make the programmer feel good. Like what? Wait, what did you just say? It's about programmer happiness? What hippy dippy bullshit is this? How are we gonna get create or correct programs that m…”

“Yeah, multilingual, it's like nine languages across, like, 40 repos, but yeah, you got them, like, JavaScript, Rust, Java, C, you know, Ruby.”

“We will eventually do PHP and Ruby, but we also, I think, care a lot about the details, and so the Essentially the reason why we haven't done it yet is because we do invest substantial amount of time to make the DX actually good and feel native to the ecosyste…”

“I think the sort of core part of Shopify with all the like, minor stuff like the identity system and all these kind of things is like, 20 million lines of code, and then the TypeScript written admin interface is like another, I think eight, nine, 10 every reas…”

“We have the machine language layer, you know, which is Python or Ruby or Rust, right? Those are effectively abstractions of the chipset and the machine instruction set. And that's the last layer that's deterministic, right? Like programming language inherently…”

“We found people who are like got PhDs in dynamic language garbage collection, dynamic language just in time compilation and to make Ruby fast. And they were having delightful time at Shopify and like Shopify is now very fast and it's very good. And we, everyon…”

“I got a prototype running and we're the first to put Python and Ruby and a few other languages in the browser. And I open sourced it.”

“Undocumented strategies at Stripe was we use a Ruby monolith. And so everything was done in the Ruby programming language with a few minor exceptions.”

“For what it's worth at Stripe, we write a lot of code in Ruby. We write a lot of code in other languages like Java and TypeScript as well, but our kind of core infrastructure is mostly implemented in core product infrastructure, mostly implemented in Ruby.”

“They don't want people who've just learned a trade, who know how to assemble Ruby code today. And then when the framework gets updated next year, they're kind of lost. Or when the company makes a shift to a different framework, they don't know how to relearn.”