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For development speed my vote would be on Ruby, along with Rails it is still unsurpassed by any newfangled stacks
by type0 4y ago
For development speed my vote would be on Ruby, along with Rails it is still unsurpassed by any newfangled stacks
- galangalalgol 4y agoInteresting! Ive never given it a look before. I always assumed it was a "web language" and as none of my work has ever been even peripherally related to web stuff I ignored it. I like the syntax, though the "everything is an object" makes me nervous. I dont like opinionated languages. I use OO when it makes sense for me.
- davidatbu 4y agoPeople keep saying that, and I guess it must be rails making things like Auth, seeting up an ORM, sessions, etc easy right? Because ruby itself, I find to not be a productive language. The lack of types means that the discoverability of methods is poor (especially when combined with the fact that gems can modify standard library classes, and rails takes full advantage of this); the lack of types also means I have a slower debug cycle because I'm bound to make silly mistakes (indexing with symbols into a hash with string keys, or typos). So again, is it really rails that makes producing MVPs easy, or is it ruby, the language?