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Ruby needs to divorce itself from Rails. for it to find it's footing again and grow. wonderful language, wonderful ecosystem - but the Rails albatross - will
by dzonga 3mo ago
Ruby needs to divorce itself from Rails.
for it to find it's footing again and grow.
wonderful language, wonderful ecosystem - but the Rails albatross - will be the death of ruby.
- throwatdem12311 3mo agoShow me on the doll where DHH hurt you
- jhbadger 3mo agoSeriously, there is more to computing than the Web. I've used Ruby for more than 25 years and never used Rails. I'm a computational biologist and like to use Bioruby to automate various sequence-based tasks. Not as popular as BioPython (or I suppose Bioperl if anyone is still using that), but a similar niche.
- manume 3mo agoThat's great, but from my experience, 90% of Rubyists I met are working with Rails. "Divorcing" from Rails is therefore absurd, just stuff people say who don't like DHH for one reason or another.
- throwatdem12311 3mo agoWe work with Rails but there is more to programming (and Ruby) than work. Sinatra micro services were a thing for a while. Hanami is decent. But the reason we use Rails is pretty simple…it’s great, easy to onboard developers, it’s battle tested, well maintained and has a massive ecosystem. I don’t even care that DHH is a Nazi because you know what I can use it for non-Nazi stuff and there’s nothing he can do about it. I get his labour for free. He’s like my little Nazi monkey slave.
- dzonga 3mo agothis is great example of framing. my take I use ruby a lot too - DHH might be disagreeable - but the one thing is one bright light i.e Rails ends up dimming the others. so when it cracks - like it did - people go to the next room, even though the current room has enough light.