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Ruby is just as dead. Only thing it had going for it was Rails.
by py_or_dy 6y ago
Ruby is just as dead. Only thing it had going for it was Rails.
- xyproto 6y agoRuby is doing well as a configuration format. Look at Vagrant and Homewbrew, for example. Also, there is Crystal, for compiling something very similar to Ruby, to native.
- jacobush 6y agoAnd that Ruby syntax slapped on Erlang
- cutler 6y agoIn Startup Land Rails is still thriving. Check out jobs on Angel.co and HN Who's Hiring.
- OOPMan 6y agoI think you mean in San Francisco Startup Land...the other startup lands are less wedded to Ruby these days
- cutler 6y agoLondon stats actually ;).
- jfim 6y agoIs there even a good alternative to Rails? As far as I know, it's still the best option there is for quickly building a MVP on the web if one isn't building a SPA.
- lmm 6y agoIs Rails quicker and easier than, say, Django? Sure. Is it quicker and easier by enough to make it worth having another language in your stack? Not really, IME.
- alexhutcheson 6y agoLaravel[1] is pretty close, and PHP has some big advantages over Ruby for performance and deployment. If you had told me 5 years ago that I'd be recommending PHP as an alternative vs. RoR I wouldn't have believed you, but the PHP world has improved in ways that I wouldn't have thought possible. [1] https://laravel.com/ https://laravel.com/
- cutler 6y agoLaravel may be based on the idea of Rails but in terms of programmer happiness it doesn't come close. A typical file of idiomatic PHP code reads like stodgy old Java and contains about 60% blank lines and doc comments as recommended by PSRs. Rails, by contrast, is elegantly concise and has fantastic metaprogramming.