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Developers who'll work right out of school, is my guess. Rails is great for the people who used it during that generation, and still is, I'm told. JS offers che
by aliqot 4y ago
Developers who'll work right out of school, is my guess. Rails is great for the people who used it during that generation, and still is, I'm told. JS offers cheaper and more plentiful talent, and doesn't require as big of a mind shift as rust. If they become more JS centric, given the overlap in JS and Rust ideology, I could absolutely see them involving Rust soon after.
- kenhwang 4y agoIf that's true that a company as big and established as Shopify can't afford to attract, onboard, and train ruby devs, it really feels like the beginning of the end for ruby.
- aliqot 4y agoRuby will be fine, this is more of an impact on Rails as the centerpiece for getting-to-MVP fastest. It once was the case, and might still be in some capacity, but everyone with that expertise is on years 10-15 in their career and don't come so cheap because they've put in the work to earn more and are well within their rights to say they aren't going to work all nighters.
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoI wouldn’t say that at all. I know several successful indiehacker types who started in the past five years and have had success with Rails. Several of them started with JS first, but Ruby is still growing on an absolute basis, despite having a smaller portion of the market as a whole than it did a decade ago. I suspect a part of this is that startups that use Rails (or Phoenix or Laravel) don’t need as many devs as startups doing a mix and match of many libraries instead of a full stack web framework.
- chillfox 4y agoI don't think this has anything to do with what they can afford at all. More like someone in leadership thinks Node is cool and collected a bunch of unvalidated reasons to support it.