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Is Ruby making inroads in the corporate market?
by therockhead 16y ago
Is Ruby making inroads in the corporate market?
- noelwelsh 16y agoI think so. Thoughtworks, who are a straight-up corporate consultancy, have done Ruby since 2006. Ruby is certainly further along the adoption curve than Scala, so perhaps DPP is trying to leapfrog over the adoption of Scala by adding JRuby support. However, IMO Scala is not what is holding Lift back -- it's lack of decent documentation. Just read the other comments on this post...
- bguthrie 16y agoI've been doing Rails work at ThoughtWorks for more than three years now. Judging from the projects I've been on, Ruby has achieved a fair amount of penetration with the Fortune 500 crowd. Whether that's expanding, topped off, or contracting, I can't judge.
- cageface 16y agoMy personal impression, backed by no real data, is that Ruby adoption has tapered off somewhat. Python and PHP web frameworks have absorbed the innovations of Rails and the subjective advantages of Ruby as a language over either aren't enough to close the gap. I wouldn't say that Ruby or Rails are dying but it also doesn't seem to me that they've achieved escape velocity either.