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I've seen a lot more discussion of Ruby recently than in past years, and maybe I'm just finding what I'm on the lookout for, but either way it makes me happy :)
by Lammy 6y ago
I've seen a lot more discussion of Ruby recently than in past years, and maybe I'm just finding what I'm on the lookout for, but either way it makes me happy :)
- joelbluminator 6y agoI think it's past the latest hate cycle to good all boring now, kinda like php but with a bit of a better rep. I'm not sure actually why php and ruby are so despised.
- Nextgrid 6y ago> php I personally quit PHP around 2013 because of the inconsistent standard library. I spent more time looking up the docs than developing because the language just wasn't intuitive compared to let's say Python. However, beyond that, PHP has some pretty great frameworks nowadays (and I am forever grateful to Laravel for teaching me the concepts of an MVC framework, which proved useful when I switched to Django).
- jaredcwhite 6y agoI'm a committed Rubyist but I'd jump into using PHP/Laravel in a heartbeat if I couldn't use Rails any more. It seems way more sensible and well-designed than the terrible state of affairs you find in JS backend land. (shudder!)
- ksec 6y agoIt is a combination of factors. It is not that Ruby suddenly popular again, the scaling issues is still there, Scaling not impossible but mostly have to do with being expensive. If you are an average dev in UK or US with 100K+ Salary of course scaling is cheap. But not everyone has that luxury or operate on the same budget. But the combination of Ruby and Rails getting faster and Hardware is finally getting cheaper. ( 128 Core EPYC, on a 2 Socket Server Changes the Unit Cost of Core per VM across the whole industry ) Along with wages rises across other part of the world. And the world has finally woken up to may be Javascript Ecosystem isn't exactly what they have hoped for in the backend.