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"..building things that the industry needs less and less.." What do you mean by that ? Or what does industry need ? Microservices are cool but a nightmare to m
by holydude 9y ago
"..building things that the industry needs less and less.."
What do you mean by that ? Or what does industry need ?
Microservices are cool but a nightmare to manage,maintain and keep everyone in sync. It's a buzzword in my book but I believe only a handful companies can really benefit from them.
Java/C# are strong in enterprise and while this community dismisses enterprise what I mean is that it is used everywhere and by everyone. You want to communicate to some obscure endpoint that manages this container ship ? SOAP api is there to serve you along with ready to use libs.
Besides..
C#/Java
You want to build desktop apps ? Check
You want to build mobile apps ? Check
You want to talk to hardware (printers,peripherals) ? Check
You want to build APIs ? Check
You want to build Games ? Check
You want to build traditional web apps ? Check
Thanks to Facebook and other companies this is also becoming more and more possible with Javascript as well.
What can Ruby/Rails offer ? Not much.