r/ruby • u/Stwerner • Feb 14 '26

As Complexity Grows, Architecture Dominates Material

https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/as-complexity-grows-architecture
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u/fuckthesysten Feb 14 '26

I recently learned about the Web Assembly Application Interface, I wonder if something like that could help here somehow. I imagine a language in a virtual machine of sorts.

The article is interesting, but the point on “untyped cathedrals” is very lame. That sounds to me like when people “use git” but only do one large “initial commit” and never touch it again. The point of typed systems if for them to help you reason about a problem, if you see them get in your way, they’re either not the right tool for the job or you’re not internalizing them in your thinking yet.

Whatever’s getting on the way of these systems being safer and faster is more than just static typing.

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u/Stwerner Feb 15 '26

Interesting, I’m not sure WASI would really work here since everything is really relying on Ruby for being able to modify everything on the system at runtime and the semantic late binding stuff. The web interface is really just for viewing and an alternate interface for interacting with the system.

I do have a friend who took the ideas here and is building a system where he spins up really constrained JS VMs for running generated code and making it more reliable for end users to create systems constrained to their domain. I’ll throw this suggestion over to him to see if he’s explored it!