Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET?

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Post by malandrew » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 1:12 AM UTC

Which community would you rather be part of?

Re: Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET?

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Post by bradleyland » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 1:33 AM UTC

malandrew wrote: post #21

Which community would you rather be part of?

Let's see, do I want to be a faux-hawk haircut havin' hipster that smells like a can of Axe body spray exploded, or do I want to be a cave (cubicle) dwelling, socially-inept nerd who has never touched a woman?

Tough choice, really.

Re: Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET?

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Post by andjones » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 4:25 AM UTC

Is there any context you can give about the project our environment in which you'll be working? And, why only Ruby vs .NET?

Re: Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET?

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Post by lovskogen » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 10:58 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #7

dasil003 wrote: post #3

Unless you are somehow already tied to Microsoft I don't see how it is at all sane to go with .NET for a greenfield project. In .NET you are paying Microsoft for whatever they deem suitable to bequeath down to its licensees. There's been a lot of hand-wringing in the community over slow uptake on new web tech, and general problems that go unresolved because it's not an open source model. On the plus side, you get a n…

"Lack of success on the web"? Besides the obvious "Stack Overflow, Myspace, Plenty of Fish" answer, observe that many --- perhaps over 50% --- of the largest company sites on the web are .NET, as are retail banking sites, trading firms, brokerages, etc. And, obviously, something like half of all enterprise web apps are .NET. If that all seems like it trends corporate for you, well, that's obviously going to happen wh…

Do you think retail banking sites, trading firms, brokerages, etc. would choose .NET today?

Re: Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 12:46 PM UTC

steverb wrote: post #5

davidw wrote: post #2

Probably depends most on what you and your team already know.

This is so true. We are a dev shop with a lot of experience with .NET. For our most recent web project we decided to take RoR for a spin. Things that would take an hour in .NET took us days. Not because RoR is lacking, but because we just don't have as deep a knowledge of Ruby or Rails. Having used both, I can't think of a compelling technical reason to choose one over the other. I personally think .NET has a nicer t…

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