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I think what the OP meant by 'modern,' was an equivalent of Rails that uses the technologies demanded by the tech industry today. On the one hand, the industry
by barce 8y ago
I think what the OP meant by 'modern,' was an equivalent of Rails that uses the technologies demanded by the tech industry today. On the one hand, the industry went to Python because a ton of data science libraries were written in that. On the other hand, React ended up real dominant on the front-end because of all the sh*t code people put between HTML JavaScript tags. Another route, is any promising asynchronous and scalability like Node or Elixir. So these divergent vectors make something like a Rails that can serve the needs of big data, snappy UI and scaling while at the same time using the team we've got super difficult. The needs of the industry have created an oblivion of the solution that was always already there, Rails.
- ronnier 8y agoAnd now I’m seeing more when more migrate to Go.
- Barrin92 8y ago>demanded by the tech industry today. That attitude needs to get out of everyone's head. You are the tech industry. If you want to build something in Rails, a mature and capable framework that has tons of support and won't go away, just do it. Who's going to stop you? Applies to any other technology that's stable as well.
- lainga 8y agoThe Whims of a Fickle Manager.
- craz8 8y agoYup - unless The Tech Industry is going to come in and rewrite all our code into Flavor Of The Month (and do that every 3 months forever) I don’t really care what they “demand” - I’m too busy providing value for my customers to be shaving that yak
- vturner 8y agoThe trouble is "we," the developers aren't the tech industry making the decisions. The managers, who once were full time developers, are making the decisions. I can say hey let's use this stable, mature tool, but which catches enthusiasm more? That or the guy drooling over React and all the complex mystery JS libs saying it's the best thing ever?
- nikanj 8y agoAnd/or the poor PHB falls prey to the sales pitch of "if you rewrite it in fad.js, you'll save tons of money".
- danjac 8y ago> these divergent vectors make something like a Rails that can serve the needs of big data So, Python has the ton of data science libraries, and it also happens to have Django...