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It's because we don't like or approve of rails. It doesn't make business sense to us (us being a completely anecdotal group of young developers I'm friends with

It's because we don't like or approve of rails. It doesn't make business sense to us (us being a completely anecdotal group of young developers I'm friends with). There are other solutions that provide sufficiently more developer speed and safety, while also providing much better performance than any rails application. Edit: I guess I just hang out with like minded people, but our biases shouldn't negate the fact that this is a very common feeling where I am.

erokar 9y ago
What other solutions are you youngsters using then? Elixir/Phoenix? Django/Python? Node? Haskell?
- mattnewton 9y ago
  Not OP but in my limited experience the MVP slot is mostly held by Django, with Node + typescript, Go and Elixir being the “safer, faster” variants “kids” are using.
  - jarsin 9y ago
    Ha it's funny seeing Django in that list because back in day (10 years ago or so) before rails took over I was trying to get everyone to use Django at my job. Then rails exploded and I moved to that. I honestly thought Django was mostly dead now.
    - stevenwoo 9y ago
      Anecdotally Django seems less common in the job listing post every month than Rails but is still present, and the python experience is relevant to many more.
      - mattnewton 9y ago
        Yeah I think it has to do with there being just more python scripts floating around, and Django (or flask) make it easy to turn that random script into a proper api. Plus CS courses have now started teaching python.
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- wolco 9y ago
  php.
michaelbuckbee 9y ago
What stack are you gravitating to?
oregontechninja 9y ago
To answer many of the replies: (Most prominent -> least prominent) Web-related: Go, Elixir, JavaScript, Python Desktop GUI: Python, C++ Game-Dev: C#, C++ Really its a matter of how much you'll pay us, and I think we've been scarred by too many bloated Rails apps and Wordpress sites to want to work on those.
- cutler 9y ago
  Now we work with Node.js which is much better ..... oh, wait I just ran out of disk space after running `npm install`.

erokar 9y ago

What other solutions are you youngsters using then? Elixir/Phoenix? Django/Python? Node? Haskell?

mattnewton 9y ago
Not OP but in my limited experience the MVP slot is mostly held by Django, with Node + typescript, Go and Elixir being the “safer, faster” variants “kids” are using.
- jarsin 9y ago
  Ha it's funny seeing Django in that list because back in day (10 years ago or so) before rails took over I was trying to get everyone to use Django at my job. Then rails exploded and I moved to that. I honestly thought Django was mostly dead now.
  - stevenwoo 9y ago
    Anecdotally Django seems less common in the job listing post every month than Rails but is still present, and the python experience is relevant to many more.
    - mattnewton 9y ago
      Yeah I think it has to do with there being just more python scripts floating around, and Django (or flask) make it easy to turn that random script into a proper api. Plus CS courses have now started teaching python.
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wolco 9y ago
php.

michaelbuckbee 9y ago

What stack are you gravitating to?

oregontechninja 9y ago

To answer many of the replies: (Most prominent -> least prominent) Web-related: Go, Elixir, JavaScript, Python Desktop GUI: Python, C++ Game-Dev: C#, C++ Really its a matter of how much you'll pay us, and I think we've been scarred by too many bloated Rails apps and Wordpress sites to want to work on those.

cutler 9y ago
Now we work with Node.js which is much better ..... oh, wait I just ran out of disk space after running `npm install`.