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I think the technical aspects discussed in the article are there not to debate the relative merits of technologies but to support the main line of reasoning whi
by dunkelheit 11y ago
I think the technical aspects discussed in the article are there not to debate the relative merits of technologies but to support the main line of reasoning which is social in nature. It boils down to:
1. Use the platform which is gaining mindshare because some years down the road you will be hiring engineers and you will want to look hip not obsolete.
2. Use the platform with solid corporate backing so that someone will support it and help it mature.
Seems very reasonable to me. Smaller companies need some strong selling points to compete with the larger firms on the hiring market and hip technology can be one of them. But the hip technology needs to actually work so better have someone with lots of resources backing it.
- volaski 11y agoIf a company itself is "hip", it doesn't need to worry about "looking hip" to developers. If I was starting a company, I would focus on the productivity NOW rather than worrying about how hip it will make me look in 3 years. And from my experience Rails is THE most productive framework on the market at the moment. I really tried to like node and have built several apps with it but I didn't even feel half as productive as using rails