Is there a demand for ruby developers in Lagos

[ukay]

@M.O.O

Both will run into issues scalability issues faster than the other languages I listed.

Have experienced this with PHP. Had to rewrite the whole shindig with Java.

@M.O.O

Golang is the new kid on the block. It’s simple, super fast(The only languages faster are probably C/C++ and Assembly)

Nope. Elixir is faster.

@M.O.O

It…supports concurrency natively without mult-ithreading hacks,

Step aside Golang, concurrency is Elixir’s surname.

@M.O.O

But when camry has full everywhere, and you still want to make money…

Money can be made without PHP.

@M.O.O

But when camry has full everywhere…Shey you’ll not join the bandwagon and drive Camry too?

I’d rather trade the Rover for a jet instead of downgrading to a Camry. The ministry should be progressing.

[MrAbalogu]

Bro your point make sense eh but we only disagreed with you calling Ruby old school, no one is trying to undermine your opinion about programming languages and feel like we’ve gone from A to Zbbdhudw but yh @M.O.O you clearly know your shit

[abiodun]

@M.O.O

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

First github,gitlab, airbnb, shopify and a host of other web apps uses rails extensively and it servers more than a million users and I don’t see no performance issues.

For a serious web dev company. I think the knowledge of php and ruby are just enough. It now depends on the developer the way he decides to optimize his code and the tools he uses for that. besides PHP 7 is significantly faster than it’s predecessors so you might want to benchmark it again against the previous result of other languages.

Agreed you might run into issues pretty fast if you don’t develop your code knowing following the specified guidelines for which-ever paradigm you are following.

However speed is not the only thing you consider when you are developing apps, other things comes into play like productivity. Ruby has been known as programmers joy for a long time now because of the ease with which the developer can get up and running in no time especially with rails. It allows you to build up a spotless and battle tested MVP in no time. much like with python or any other MVC for that matter.

Also I can decide to use SLIM/Silex/Rails to serve an api to whichever js front-end framework am willing to use. just like node

@M.O.O

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.

Ruby is also a handy language outside the web domain. heard of metasploits payload?

@M.O.O

) JavaScript is event-based which can be used to mimic concurrency via callbacks.

Yes javascript is event based that runs on a single thread. This means that once you are running a cpu intensive task your app get significantly slower. as it’s wait for the execution of a stack frame before running the next. even though it would like you to call it’s callback as being async. it’s still a sync process I think this was the reason why go-lang comes in as an option. again here fast is relative.

@M.O.O

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.”

Right about now the only place C# is that useful is using it with any .Net technologies.(I will pick it over Java any day though). Using Xamarin for seirous IOS apps is a pain. You still have to go to xcode to build your UI with .xlb and know the native api well enough to be able to work with it. This is like a 2 step process that in my opinion building it with it’s seperate platform is better. For more universal feel I’ll rather go with react-native or nativescript

The fact that a tool has been around for a long time doesn’t mean it’s no longer in demand as long as it get the job done.
A sizeable number of developers still uses smalltalk

What am trying to say is as someone has said here before… “A tool is only as good as the man using it”. no need of calling it outdated or whatever…

[ukay]

@abiodun

First github,gitlab, airbnb, shopify and a host of other web apps uses rails extensively and it servers more than a million users and I don’t see no performance issues.

How about Twitter and LinkedIn?

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Pay me no mind, I’m just nitpicking

[M.O.O]

Lol, was gonna do that too, but then I thought, naaaah. Its no bigie.