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OT and hijacking this thread: 1. Who is actually new to Ruby? (After Ruby or rather the popular RoR is there almost for a decade everyone should have made som
by tferris 14y ago
OT and hijacking this thread:
1. Who is actually new to Ruby?
(After Ruby or rather the popular RoR is there almost for a decade everyone should have made some experiences with Ruby, so I am wondering if there are many new Rubiest)
2. What new language/stack did you start to learn recently?
(for me: Node.js)
- Pewpewarrows 14y agoAs a Python guy I never had any reason to need to learn Ruby. And even now that I'm playing around with it it's purely out of professional curiosity.
- verisimilidude 14y agoFor what it's worth, Ruby has always been more about "want" than "need" for me. When I really need to get something done, fast, I'll choose Python; Python always seems to have an esoteric-but-very-necessary lib for every situation. But Ruby is where I want to spend my fun time. Opinions will differ, of course. Both languages are tops.
- bradleyland 14y ago> Who is actually new to Ruby? I suspect your comment is being buried for the pretentiousness of that question. Plenty of people are still new to Ruby, because you absolutely do not need Ruby to have a successful development career. Not to mention the population of individuals who are completely new to programming.
- vidarh 14y agoAs a heavy Ruby user who is also regularly hiring: In my experience it is still vastly harder to hire someone with any degree of Ruby exposure vs. PHP developers, for example. Ruby is still a niche language.
- alexbell 14y agoThat was narrow minded. You know it's possible to be a developer and never touch a web app stack professionally, right? Let alone the One True Language that is Ruby.