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If you want a more exciting job, don't learn PHP or C#. PG says it well http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html I know ple
by phamilton 16y ago
If you want a more exciting job, don't learn PHP or C#.
PG says it well http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
I know plenty of companies struggling to fill RoR programming slots and are paying above market average for them. They are doing fun and exciting things.
- ig1 16y agoThat's not really the case, it just seems that way because of your local environment. Of the 1.3 million software developer jobs in the US maybe a few percent at most are in Ruby, and most of those are concentrated in a handful of locations. PHP and C# usage is much higher and distributed across the US.
- architgupta 16y agoStartup. Not looking for a job. Looking to figure out what the best hackers in the world think are good tools to use and then start using those. (Since I have to most-likely learn new tools anyway). Reading HN, it seems people work with Rails, Python (Django/Pylons/WebPy/?) and Node.js Basically wanted the experience of people who built something more than toy projects minus the flame war :-)
- phamilton 16y agoI spent the last 2 months building an app on rails and I've really enjoyed it. The available plugins and docs are great. With a bit more of a python background, I've really enjoyed Ruby. The ruby way of doing things seems more intuitive to me now, and I struggle a little bit when programming in python (not much, but I feel pythons stricter syntax and grammar to be a little bit of friction) Someone else here compared ruby to python. They said ruby is quicker and smoother for UI programming, python is faster and better developed for computation. I think that answer is dead on.