[BMorearty]

I’m not trying to follow the latest Ruby dustup and don’t have a stake in it but as an Airbnb alum I did find this part particularly identifiable:

“Yet, Ruby and Rails remain the default stack at Shopify, and the only reason for that is the CEO. Every Shopify employee knows that suggesting straying away from Ruby wouldn’t fly there. And I’m convinced that if it were anyone else at the helm, Shopify would have joined the long list of companies that attempted to migrate to something else and are now stuck with both a Ruby monolith and a ton of half-migrated micro-services in Java or Go.”

[byroot]

Funny because Airbnb was one of the examples I had in mind when I wrote this (but granted it's been a long time since I heard about the state of their infra, so might be outdated by now).

[BMorearty]

I’m in the same boat, unsure if this is outdated. I left Airbnb five years ago and haven’t followed up to ask anyone what the current state of the tech is.