916 karma · joined January 24, 2016
I wasn't aware of this, but as the spouse of a medical provider I know that most US providers are burdened with an ever-present worry about malpractice.
Every place I've worked in the last ~5 years has treated Ruby as "legacy" code for better or worse.
Ever work for a company with their own datacenters that were NOT cutting edge? The work to provision resources can be so painful that it severely inhibits prototyping. Being able to spin up resources in seconds with some API calls is very valuable.
That's simply not possible unless we have literal laws for every possible infraction - like a state machine for the human condition.
Time and time again we prove that R&D has a massive ROI, yet it's always being trimmed since it doesn't pay off in a short-enough time frame to keep the accountants happy (<6 months).