looking at mastodon instances

wondering how many dozen instances i could host per GB if ram was any close to correctly used

just don't start projects in ruby anymore please

okay also:

please don't python for large projects, it's nice but has the same issues even if less obvious.

please don't java, ever. it's like,,, no dont.

please don't javascript, but v8 is cool and efficient, it's just a bad tool.

go is average. i dislike the language and find it very uh well bad but it does the job and does it efficiently enough

please rust, please a lot of rust all the time, we won't ever need anything else when we get more rust done 🦀

@CobaltVelvet what about erlang/elixir?

@gargron i dislike it for shitty reasons like community and syntax and tool names, but it's technically very interesting and using erlang makes it powerful and efficient