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What is the Ruby community like in 2019? I've spent the past 20 years primarily working on JVM-based languages. Being told for about 19 of those years that my
by StevePerkins 8y ago
What is the Ruby community like in 2019?
I've spent the past 20 years primarily working on JVM-based languages. Being told for about 19 of those years that my boring verbose tech stack stack is obsolete, and going away from the business world any day now.
Most recently, that voice comes mainly from the Node.js community. But 10 years ago, it was a mix of Ruby and Python upstarts. I kinda saw those languages and communities as two sides of a coin:
* The Python guys were the upstarts who leaned toward stability and practicality. Wore slacks and polos, or maybe t-shirts and jeans.
* The Ruby guys were more of the "move fast and break things" school, and favored aesthetics over performance. Had numerous tattoos, and shaved with vintage German double-edged safety razors and a badger brush.
It feels like Node took all the oxygen out of the room in terms of racing to be the Java replacement. But how have the shifts affected the identity of the Ruby community? Did they get older, mature, and come to resemble the Python community culturally? Or are there still a lot of young people disrupting things rapidly, and you just don't hear about it as much anymore?
- KurtMueller 8y agoThese are certainly broad categories you're putting people into. I'm a ruby developer who wears t-shirts and jeans on the regular, have no tattoos, and shave with a Gillette Mach 3 razor (lol). I'm definitely older and more mature now but I'd don't necessarily think that makes it closer to the Python community culturally nor that the two dev communities were ever that far apart to begin with.
- dentemple 8y agoStereotyping large groups of people doesn't make for a good argument. Not unless you're purposely trying to make JVM-stack developers look toxic.
- eamike261 8y agoThis attitude reminds of the old engineers who cling to svn and refuse to learn git.