Comment by hosh

16 days ago

While there is indeed a Ruby on Rails tax, Github is also written in Rails as well (https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/bu...)

So is Shopify and Stripe. They can scale.

These days, if I want something that has some of the ergonomics of Rails in a platform I know can scale better than Ruby, I reach for Elixir/Phoenix.

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jeremyjh  15 days ago

Github can get pretty sluggish as well; if you have a pull request with lots of comments page loads begin to take a dozen seconds or more. AI code review bots make it painful for humans to use it.

  • ahartmetz  14 days ago

    Everything in GitHub is slow. Very simple stuff, too. It's annoying.

    In any case, it's a closed source, underfeatured, Microsoft owned platform for Open Source software, so what are we doing there anyway?

    • hosh  11 days ago

      Resume building, for one. Discoverability, for another. Redmonk covered how much of a game changer Github was back in the early days.

      I am personally excited about radicle — a local-first, distributed forge.