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It’s always so odd when these type of posts pop up and I scroll through and see comments about how people love Ruby/Rails. Mainly because I can’t stand the lang
by random_acc 3y ago
It’s always so odd when these type of posts pop up and I scroll through and see comments about how people love Ruby/Rails. Mainly because I can’t stand the language and framework. I absolutely hate any time I have to read through Ruby/Rails code or write something in it.
- montroser 3y agoAgreed -- over the years working in many different languages and frameworks, I've found it most difficult to transfer experience and learnings to rails. Whereas in pretty much every other stack, I can trace through and read code to understand how the framework and library code and dependencies all work together, in a rails app, I have to read docs to grok magic. With all the metaprogramming, it is near impossible to just read code and get a sense of what all is happening in any reasonable amount of time.
- shortcake27 3y agoWhy is it odd? Are people not allowed to like things that you don’t?
- random_acc 3y agoOf course not. Just odd in the sense that I am on the other side of the fence, so I feel left out :) Just not my cup of tea I guess.
- shortcake27 3y agoApologies, as the other response suggested I read into it wrong. Rails is definitely polarising - people either seem to love it or hate it.
- meepmorp 3y agoNot OP, but I believe you're reading the wrong thing into that response. For me, the responses are fascinating, because many of the things people seem to love about rails (and ruby) are the ones that I hate. It's not that you're not allowed to like those things, by all means feel free - I'm just perplexed. Fwiw, I regularly use ruby for work (with and without rails) and I'm fairly competent with it. I just think it sucks.