I started writing code in html & css and tried doing some nodejs but found myself writing rails more and kind of mastered it now. I have got a whole lot of offers as a web developer but during the interview I noticed that barely anyone has an idea what the ruby stack is, mostly in search of php ‘laravel’ & c# ‘.net’. I have been doing a whole lot of freelancing least to keep myself busy but nothing beats experience.
Is it that no startup uses rails because I know no prestige tech company uses rails… mostly c# & php. Ruby is an amazing language why are we lagging in lagos btw I have also started writing some react and also react native just to leave my comfort zone and probably land me a job least ruby isnt landing me a job here in lagos.
Please I need some advice. & dont tell me to write php biko
Rails is old school. Its not as if people are not using Rails. Its just that people are starting to shift away from it. (and also php, I pray)
I wouldn’t advice anybody learning any programming language in 2016 to learn php or rails. Its like learning HTML4 when there’s HTML5- It won’t kill you, but you’re missing out on so much.
Well I could argue that frameworks are old school, but that’s another issue for another day.
Anyways its just my opinion though. When all is said and done programmers are gonna learn what appeals to them the most, or what will get them the job.
1.Ruby is not old school. 2. I know a couple of guys from andela who do Ruby, there was even an event recently for Ruby devs, so there is a community just not vibrant. BTW I don’t do Ruby.
Please don’t ever say this outside Radar, ever! ffs, Radar’s Underlying platform, Discourse, was built with Rails. Don’t let people like @timigod catch you saying this.
Waow. Lots of people are stuck on this old school thing. I did say other things asides the old school line. A particular one I remember saying is:
Anyways its just my opinion though
But since boys are itching for an argument (Disclaimer: I tried not diverting the topic of this thread to a “this language vs that language” thread but I guess sometimes you can’t help it)
My earlier statement was purely opinionated. People don’t have to agree with me and it also doesn’t have to be an argument.
But, if you were to start a web dev firm today in 2016 and you were to pick a maximum of 5 languages your company would focus on, would you pick Ruby?
I won’t and I have my reasons. My top 5 languages for a new dev company would be:
C#
Golang
JavaScript (node.js, *insert front-end framework)
Python
PHP (Well you can’t rule out php can you?)
Now which of these 5 languages do you think Ruby would displace? (be nice )
Any particular reason you are willing to share for picking this languages?.. what are the listed languages weakness and strength and why do you think ruby doesn’t fit into the specification ? I thought this was about frameworks. @M.O.O
@abiodun
I don’t think there’s anything new I have to add that’s not already on stackoverflow, quora or google.
Of all the languages I metioned, I believe the only language ruby comes remotely close to competing with is PHP. and left to me they’re are more or less the same in terms of performance and ease of development (at least with Laravel)
Both Php and Ruby on their own can’t really do much for a serious Web Dev. Ruby got a lot of good rap from Rails which is a full blown framework same as Php+Laravel. Both RoR and Php+Laravel are slow. Both will run into issues scalability issues faster than the other languages I listed. The one advantage I believe Php has over Ruby and probably most other languages is that “It is there” Every cheap hosting web server has Php and Apache installed (You can’t ignore cheap. Cheap is good… sometimes). Most books teaching beginner web development also teach with Php for this very reason which is why the popularity is immense.
As far as the other languages go: Python and JavaScript are significantly faster than Ruby. (These on a good day are enough for me to make my decision as I’m obsessed with speed.) JavaScript is event-based which can be used to mimic concurrency via callbacks. Python unforunately doesn’t have this feature embedded. But Python has a heavy and well grounded and active community which makes it easy to develop in. Plus its a handy language outside the web domain.
Golang is the new kid on the block. It’s simple, super fast(The only languages faster are probably C/C++ and Assembly) It is lean, easy to reason about and supports concurrency natively without mult-ithreading hacks, hence can be used to build servers, databases, distributed systems or just a blog website.
C#. Well aside from being a full blown Object Oriented statically typed language. Its also one of the most versatile languages on my list. And then there is Xamarin. Which gives C# a whole new level of “language cred.”
Note: I didn’t just handpick my favourite languages (My favourite is actually my first ever language which is Java) I picked them based on relevance and productivity in and outside the web domain. Truth is, if I know all the five languages I listed above, i have no business developing in Ruby or even learning it unless ofcourse the client specifically asks which obviously makes my list or any list useless.
@ukay
before Php will go away ehn… It will tey. Taylor Otwell has made sure of this
So many people drive a Camry; not enough reason to pass up a Land Rover.
But when camry has full everywhere, and you still want to make money, Shey you’ll not join the bandwagon and drive Camry too?
btw I have also started writing some react and also react native just to leave my comfort zone and probably land me a job least ruby isnt landing me a job here in lagos.
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