> I ran Rails in production years back and swore it off then. We had constant memory leaks that seemingly came from Rails itself, and the only solution we had was "just restart the server."
This hasn't been a serious problem in a decade.
> We also had no typing then, so every bug was a runtime bug. Hopefully it's improved in the years since...
The ecosystem has been introducing gradual typing, but even at high scale, types were not remotely the most common type of problem I ever ran into, and certainly not "every" bug.
(ex-Braintree engineer, we processed billions of requests on Rails)
This hasn't been a serious problem in a decade.
> We also had no typing then, so every bug was a runtime bug. Hopefully it's improved in the years since...
The ecosystem has been introducing gradual typing, but even at high scale, types were not remotely the most common type of problem I ever ran into, and certainly not "every" bug.
(ex-Braintree engineer, we processed billions of requests on Rails)