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I just wrote some Ruby for a side project after ~7 years. The language is still fun, ecosystem is good, and things have progressed nicely. I never worried about
by rgrmrts 4y ago
I just wrote some Ruby for a side project after ~7 years. The language is still fun, ecosystem is good, and things have progressed nicely. I never worried about "Ruby is slow" because I never used it at the scale/for software where it mattered much. That said, it's much faster now!
Give it a shot again. I really enjoyed doing so.
- nixpulvis 4y agoMaybe I'll go back to some Sinatra and CLI work I have been putting off... Gotta say, last time I checked up on Rails though, it really depressed me how bloated it got. Maybe I'll just use ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport... but there was so much to love about Rails, I'm just really sad all the JS support kinda overwhelmed it from my perspective.
- jemmyw 4y agoI've been doing Rails for a long time now and I'm not sure this is true. The latest release seems sleeker than the Rails 3 series. Back then we had RJS still going on and UJS becoming a thing. It's a web framework so JS will always have a place, and if anything I'd say they've finally sorted out the JS side to give you some saner options from the beginning - turbo/hotwire being just one of the options.
- viraptor 4y agoOr even try Crystal if you do want something more modern and faster. Same fun but with types and easier deployment. (Using both a lot)