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I agree with just about all of your post except using Rails as an example of something that burnt out quickly. It was the most popular web framework around for
by petepete 8y ago
I agree with just about all of your post except using Rails as an example of something that burnt out quickly. It was the most popular web framework around for the best part of a decade and is still being chosen for new projects.
- wolco 8y agoRails was never the most popular framework. But for a certain geography it was. Those were the anti-java crowd.
- pjmlp 8y agoRails was popular among those that never saw such approaches before, like on AOLServer and Zope. I just kept using Java, .NET and C++, while enjoying their performance, IDE tooling, and whatever ideas they could bring into their web stacks. Nowadays most cool companies that were pushing Ruby, are on JVM languages.
- petepete 8y agoI think your view is skewed and doesn't reflect what actually happened in the mid-00s.
- wolco 8y agoAll views are correct. Look at the number of jobs in cities around the world. Ruby was 1 in California but no where else during that time period.
- pjmlp 8y agoSkewed from European enterprises point of view. I only got to know one start-up doing Ruby (not Rails), which happened to rewrite our Perl deployment scripts as a project subcontractor, as they didn't had anyone with Perl knowledge.