> I am doing mostly Ruby and code in Atom, or Sublime before that. I don't have noticeable starting times for my editor.
That's interesting, because there have been articles that indicate that Atom has not only comparatively worse startup times (which may or may not matter to people), but also really bad typing latency: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
> Ruby is not native, but we'll portable. My point is this 'boring' work style is here, people just choose to not use it.
This is a good point, though! As far as I know, plenty of people still use Ruby (typically on Rails), or also other "batteries included" solutions like Python and Django pretty successfully.
Admittedly, that doesn't matter for all projects, but why couldn't we have the ease of use of Python with the performance of Rust and the developer experience of Rails/Django?
That's interesting, because there have been articles that indicate that Atom has not only comparatively worse startup times (which may or may not matter to people), but also really bad typing latency: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
In particular, this image gets the point across well: https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-...
> Ruby is not native, but we'll portable. My point is this 'boring' work style is here, people just choose to not use it.
This is a good point, though! As far as I know, plenty of people still use Ruby (typically on Rails), or also other "batteries included" solutions like Python and Django pretty successfully.
That said, most of these languages have pretty severe limitations in regards to their performance and resource usage: https://jaxenter.com/energy-efficient-programming-languages-...
Some lovely benchmarks seem to confirm that, in relatively real world conditions: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Admittedly, that doesn't matter for all projects, but why couldn't we have the ease of use of Python with the performance of Rust and the developer experience of Rails/Django?