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I don't get why Ruby is mentioned before PHP. The only Ruby thing I've ever come across is GitLab, and not with positive associations either - up until maybe 3,
by mschuster91 11mo ago
I don't get why Ruby is mentioned before PHP. The only Ruby thing I've ever come across is GitLab, and not with positive associations either - up until maybe 3, 4 years ago particularly Sidekiq was a constant point of utter pain.
- cwyers 11mo agoI was surprised by that, too, and assumed it was a decade-old article until I saw the date at the bottom. Both being mentioned before Python is wilder, as is the total exclusion of JavaScript.
- mschuster91 11mo agoJavaScript on the backend is a rare thing to see, even in "resume driven development" scenarios it's usually some sort of static build that gets pushed to S3 or whatever.
- DonHopkins 11mo agoAre you time traveling from 1998, when AOL acquired Netscape and sidelined Livewire?
- cwyers 11mo agoNode.js is the most popular web framework/technology in the StackOverflow developer survey. Express is more popular than FastAPI, Django, Flask and Rails in the same survey. Just... what are you talking about?
- petepete 11mo agoI suspect it's because Ruby's ability to deal with strings is so heavily influenced by Perl. When I first started using Ruby after years of Perl, it felt familiar but everything was just more... sensible.