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> This isn't contrasting Ruby to PHP, this is contrasting the web that was with the web that is. Wait, are we really calling Ruby/Rails the "is" of web develop

• mhd 7y ago
  I'm calling the current version of RoR able to provide what the "is" state needs, while staying within the Ruby world (like antirez' example did). My point was that basically any other stack would be at least as complex when it comes to the infrastructure than this, most likely even PHP.
  • nkozyra 7y ago
    Huh, I really don't see that. Modern web development usually means some Vue/react/angular frontend decoupled from a backend that could be running literally anything. I'd give php some performance props over other scripting languages but obviously there's go/Ruby/python/whatever in the mix and they all work admirably enough and are usually reverse proxies.
• masa331 7y ago
  I don't know what you call 2020 web development but in last 2 years i'v been able to co-develop several web apps in Node.js and also complete "serverless" ones using only AWS services and oh boy.. Rails is still so far ahead
  • joelbluminator 7y ago
    Rails is effective and nice to work with, PHP isn't half bad. I think these languages got a bad rep by frustrated Cobol developers or something...