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From my hobbyist exposure it's pretty awesome. I understand it's expensive for production... but why do people dread working on it?
Can anyone enlighten me as to why Heroku is the number 3 most dreaded platform (behind Wordpress and IBM Cloud/Watson)? From my hobbyist exposure it's pretty awesome. I understand it's expensive for production... but why do people dread working on it?
Curious about the salaries for the top four paying technology languages. Three of the four for US are functional focused languages, and for global all four are functional focused. As someone learning Scala, this is both encouraging and interesting, and I'm curious as to any explanation to the table result. Do functional programming languages increase developer productivity so significantly that a single developer can…
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You asked about why Python but it has a lot to do with JS too. But first lets compare against Python: Ruby is a delightful language, but it's dominated by one niche (web development) and one framework (Rails). Over the last 10-20 years Python has become the main teaching language in Academia. This has greatly contributed to it's ecosystem for math and science, which in turn has contributed to its rise in Data Science…
Yes, one of the biggest drawbacks in the Ruby world is the lack of strong libraries outside of web dev. Python has scrapy, numpy, pandas, nltk, beautifulsoup, matplotlib, etc. Basically if you want to do almost anything (except high performance real time stuff) you can do it in python. it is an excellent general purpose language. In ruby, the world isn't so great. When I was in the ruby world, I would always hit road…
I mentioned this in my other post. Ruby is the only language on the top list that doesn't have a major cooperate backing. Basically Ruby community are really lack of resources.
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I also don't understand this. Even today, Rails is, by far, the most productive environment that exists for developing a web application. I speak this as someone who also wrote a ton of backends in Node.js, Java, and many other languages (never tried Django though, so I don't know about that). Almost all of those applications would have been 10% of the effort if they were just Rails apps. A sibling comment here menti…
Authn/Authz needs to be integrated into code already.
Can someone help this old (2^5 years) developer out? I've worked with a number of programming languages over the years, and have never found a combination that brings me such joy and productivity as Ruby and Rails. However, I've always felt that Python and Ruby were very similar in style & goal. Can someone who is experienced in both Rails & Django explain why Python & Django are trending up so quickly, while Ruby &…
I think Python is trending up because it’s a general purpose language that’s easy to learn. Django basically does what Ruby on Rails does, not exactly but close enough. Flask does what Node.JS does, to the extend that we’re talking about building quick prototypes, not running Netflix. So you have most of your web-based needs covered. Python also does data though, and is to ML and BI what NPM is to web-development, an…
Flask is better at Netflix scales. You don't want opinionated frameworks making decisions for you in the endgame. That's only good in the beginning to get off the ground
Can someone explain why rust is so beloved? Also I work in R primarily, I find it funny that love and dread are both near 50%.
Can anyone enlighten me as to why Heroku is the number 3 most dreaded platform (behind Wordpress and IBM Cloud/Watson)? From my hobbyist exposure it's pretty awesome. I understand it's expensive for production... but why do people dread working on it?
I would guess in absolute terms it must be dreaded by a lot of people simply because of it's extremely large user base. Any product is bound to rub someone the wrong way.
% of developers who are developing with the language or technology but have not expressed interest in continuing to do so
Heroku 47.3%
Curious about the salaries for the top four paying technology languages. Three of the four for US are functional focused languages, and for global all four are functional focused. As someone learning Scala, this is both encouraging and interesting, and I'm curious as to any explanation to the table result. Do functional programming languages increase developer productivity so significantly that a single developer can…
Alternative possibility (that I just made up on the spot): the people who get to choose what language to work in, ignoring the popularity of the language (and therefore how easy they are to replace) are already in very senior positions. More junior people do not get the opportunity to work in functional languages.
The other half is location. There are only few functional programming jobs, highly skewed toward the big cities with higher salary and costs of living.