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Ask HN: Anyone still excited about Ruby and RoR?

• lastofus 10y ago
  I'm still excited about Python/Django, though everything I have to say about it would be just as true for Ruby/RoR. It's a great language to work with built on top of a solid framework that's been around for a decade now, and will continue to be around for another 5-10 years easy. I don't think this can be said for anything in the Node ecosystem. I can get a fully functioning app out the door very quick. These days I care more about shipping and making money than I do playing with new languages/frameworks. Also having a sane stable 3rd party ecosystem to draw upon is amazing. Unless there is a big technical benefit, I just don't see any good reason to change to something else as I am too damn productive.
• k__ 10y ago
  When I was at university, everyone was switching to RoR web development, but most people said it was a pain in production. Also people who started their web-dev career with it seem to have gotten the wrong picture of the web landscape. RoR is a highly integrated stack, but web-dev mostly isn't, hence the JS fatigue posts I guess... Well, the hype kids from university switched to mobile rather fast, as the iPhone and Android came out, so no one I know is using RoR anymore. But I think Fetlife (NSFW) is build on RoR. I for myself think the times of big frameworks like RoR are over, with these cool new package managers every language has.