Readit Newsteam size sounds similar but it's mostly full time people from shopify and other interested parties (see https://railsatscale.com/2025-01-10-yjit-3-4-even-faster-and... and similar)
There’s also strong overlaps with Varoufakis’ “Technofeudalism”, I.e. construction companies living in autodesks fiefdom.
Instead everybody pays the lowest bid? Does everybody get a token as well? Why would anybody bid more than the reserve im this model?
Many systems using other “preferred languages” also
implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine,
CPython); we don’t hear complaints about it, because these
languages have a rapport for heavy lifting and parallel tasks.
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I’ve heard this before, but it’s not really true. Yes, maybe the majority of JavaScript code is now statically-typed, via Typescript. Some percentage of Python code is (I don’t know the numbers). But that’s about it.
Very few people are using static typing in Ruby, Lua, Clojure, Julia, etc.