On: Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster

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Because Android team had some Kotlin shills that pushed for it with management blessing, and they are in bed with JetBrains for the Android IDE, that is why, and even them had to accept updating Java support, otherwise Android/Kotlin would lose the ecosystem of Java written libraries, hence Java 11 LTS last year, and Java 17 LTS this year going, back to Android 12 with APEX archives.

Scala became a thing indeed, where it is now besides Spark?

ThoughWorks is a consultancy that recomends whatever brings new projects.

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So where are the Shopify's of that era build on Struts and JSF?

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Amazon.

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Amazon was founded in 1994, that's not the same era.

Ruby didn't even exist back then and was released a year later. Rails was released in 2004. Shopify was founded in in 2006, 12 years after Amazon.

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Yet another reason that proves the point of Ruby not being something to be worthwhile using when performance matters.