There seems to be a disconnect between what Shopify do internally and what they ask of their users. With Hydrogen and now Remix you would think they have their sh*t together. But when the official docs recommend that you inline jquery click handlers for a simple adjustment to their shop, I just don't know what to think.
All in all the Shopify dev experience for me is on par with Wordpress. I hold my nose and cash the cheques. Then hurriedly leave the premises in a long trench coat with my hat pulled down to avoid being recognised.
I wouldn't be surprised if they swap out liquid and its json based layout config .. despite they keep saying everything is doing great. New gen developer probably got gaslit by React vibe and demands change (admittedly I made this shit up)
FWIW: Tobi mentioned that if he had to do it all over again, he would still build the admin and business logic of Shopify in Ruby on Rails, but would probably build their liquid rendering in Rust or something like it
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1585459224506671104?s=20&t=0...
Probably only because that's what he's familiar with. Rails has the most ubiquitous scale problems that large co's keep migrating away from, and new devs are trending away from it. Shopify investing into the JS/TS backend world is just another domino falling of Ruby/Rails descending into Perl-like prevalence.
They are spending tens of millions building a ruby JIT so I am not sure you are painting an accurate picture here...
So they recognize they're having problems with speed. Dropbox also spent years trying to JIT Python faster with Pyston, and were unsuccessful. They now are leveraging Rust and Go instead.
how do you keep up with developments like this? I suddenly see how interested I am in what stacks companies are using and more so what are they going to be using in the near to mid term future.
StackOverflow Trends: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=ruby%2Ctypesc...
GitHub Star History: https://star-history.com/
NPM trends: https://npmtrends.com/
For specific co tech stacks:
Tech Co migrations: https://github.com/kokizzu/list-of-tech-migrations
https://stackshare.io/wikipedia/wikipedia
Company GitHub page
And HN in general, like surfacing this Shopify acquisition.