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Wow, I thought Ruby was supposed to be an elegant and simple language for developers but now I realize why it's dying off. It looks like it's trying to cater to
by webgoat 8y ago
Wow, I thought Ruby was supposed to be an elegant and simple language for developers but now I realize why it's dying off. It looks like it's trying to cater to newbies and not real developers with all the syntax changes and odd paradigms. I'll stick with Python.
- tracer4201 8y agoWhat's wrong with catering to "newbies"? How do you define "real developers" vs. a newbie? One of my previous teams at one of the big tech companies who's products or services you likely use every day had an entire suite of tests for data pipelines that were quickly implemented in Ruby. That system is still in production today. I guess none of the folks on that team were "real developers", huh?
- freehunter 8y agoThe folks at Basecamp, Github, AirBnb, Hulu, Kickstarter, MyFitnessPal, Twitch, or tons of other Rails-powered sites must not be "real developers" either...
- h1d 8y agoAdd Discourse as a rails app too which is becoming hugely popular. Also GitLab.
- smnplk 8y agoI wonder to what extent are those 'a rails app'. Those are all huge apps with many microservices I would assume. Don't tell me Twitch backend is all rails.
- vvillena 8y agoWhile those examples may not be pure Rails apps anymore, it was the way they started. Rails was essential in making all those startups succeed and grow massively.
- benbristow 8y agoDefinitely. Rails is great as a starting point. By the time a product/company has started to 'outgrow' it then of course migrating away might make sense and there'll more than likely be a large enough team at the time to do the migration. A bit of YAGNI is clear here.