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I still use it for most websites I build. Ruby + jquery are still great! I’ve inherited a ton of backbone, angular, react projects and it’s always a pain sourc

I still use it for most websites I build. Ruby + jquery are still great! I’ve inherited a ton of backbone, angular, react projects and it’s always a pain sourcing devs for whatever random thing a project was written in 1-8 years ago. Jquery is just jquery and you can put anyone on it. EXCEPT I reached out to the lambda school contractor program for a work project and was pretty shocked they only do node+react.

tuesdayrain 7y ago
> EXCEPT I reached out to the lambda school contractor program for a work project and was pretty shocked they only do node+react. They only teach modern, relevant technologies? How shocking.
- SimianLogic2 7y ago
  This is a bad take. Save your snark for somewhere else. I didn’t say it was the wrong choice or even a bad choice, just that I was surprised. Ruby and jquery are certainly modern technologies. My surprise was more a factor that maybe I had too high of an impression of LS (and I’m still a fan!). The blogs/tweets I’ve seen from afar made it seem more like a rigorous “be a working software engineer” curriculum. If their candidates are ONLY suited for a node/react stack that seems like a pretty dangerous/inflexible hire. TBF this was for folks who haven’t graduated yet, so maybe they go wider on their final few months. As a person who hires engineers, I don’t want someone who only knows one stack. I want smart people who can solve problems in any stack that gets thrown at them (even if they’re junior and I need to hold their hands a bit).