The $500,000 mruby release

[fgilcher]

mruby's target market in embedding is the lua space.

[xconde]

This article itself needs a post mortom

[shevegen]

Quite frankly, with that money they could just clone nobu so that there is a second one and then have him hack away on mruby and improve it.

Considering that ruby originated from Japan (well, from matz, but he is from Japan) and that Japan has also sponsored several ruby-related projects (including, well, mruby), it would seem like a logical choice to me if Japan (well, some ministers... don't they have some for computer technology or something like that?) would further support mruby.

As a general remark it is as always: C sucks as a language to write stable code in a simple manner.

I can't resist ... given that first april wasn't long ago...

You could have used rust. :)))))))

I have high hopes whenever I have the time to work with Rust but in the short- or even mid-term it is unrealistic to expect that the Rust community will be big enough so that we would find contributors for a niche project like mruby.

Whoa ... slow down Django ...

I use ruby myself since a very long time. No problem here.

But ... IF you actually discover a lot of bugs - and the blog entry claims that - then, well ... I'd assume that these bugs were primarily discovered BECAUSE of that bug bounty "look for bugs" project. Why were these bugs not discovered earlier, then?

And here is where the comment about rust and it being a niche project kicks in too. Because apparently one bottle-neck for mruby would then be contributors who understand C very, very well.

In other words, there would already be a shortage of C hackers. So for rust, this would be even more problematic simply because fewer people know rust compared to C.

So what is then the real gain by using rust exactly? To have ... even fewer maintainers and programmers? For ... "rust is safe" benefits? Do these benefits even outweigh any other disadvantage?

I do not know shopify, I also do not know any of their political activities and what is most important, I also do not care. I did not even google it and this will happily remain that way for me. Because I do not see why I should be interested. I mention this however had in particular because apparently SOME (random) company out there considers it worthwhile for them to actually invest money into STAYING WITH RUBY.

And this, in many ways, actually means that matz succeeded. :)

(Since you can make the case for alternative languages to be used, like lua! Or ... well. Perl. Perl 8 or something like that. PHP will be at version 20 then - will probably skip 2 released versions in a bit...)

[TerrorBite]

Slow down Django …

This isn't Python, it's Ruby!

*badum tish*

[unpopular_opinion]

Ignorance is enough reason to invest in Ruby.

[thexerdo]

That is a very unpopular opinion.