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Somewhat fitting xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
I love how pragmatic the approach is here. We still don't have parser generators which generate human understandable/readable recursive descent parser with good error recovery baked in. But i am guessing the ruby syntax is too complicated/irregular anyway. On a macro side, i am always surprised with the length and effort company will go to keep working with solution design and selected at their young age, and try to…
For what its worth though, we do also have Go, Rust, Scala, etc. in different places in our stack where its needed.
It feels to me like Shopify is single-handedly keeping Ruby alive. A little bit like Jane Street and O'Caml.
This is wholly irrelevant, but I love the spelling of O'Caml like an Irish last name. I'd definitely frequent a pub called O'Caml's.
I love how pragmatic the approach is here. We still don't have parser generators which generate human understandable/readable recursive descent parser with good error recovery baked in. But i am guessing the ruby syntax is too complicated/irregular anyway. On a macro side, i am always surprised with the length and effort company will go to keep working with solution design and selected at their young age, and try to…
It feels to me like Shopify is single-handedly keeping Ruby alive. A little bit like Jane Street and O'Caml.
You're going to incur the wrath for saying the silent part, but you're not wrong. People have the same 5 rails example corps every time someone says one of these two things: - without rails nobody would use ruby - without X corp, ruby's dead Fact is, we're seeing less and less usage, and more and more distillation of the current userbase along the golden paths laid out by DHH. Is it wrong for rails and thus ruby adop…
It feels to me like Shopify is single-handedly keeping Ruby alive. A little bit like Jane Street and O'Caml.
You're going to incur the wrath for saying the silent part, but you're not wrong. People have the same 5 rails example corps every time someone says one of these two things: - without rails nobody would use ruby - without X corp, ruby's dead Fact is, we're seeing less and less usage, and more and more distillation of the current userbase along the golden paths laid out by DHH. Is it wrong for rails and thus ruby adop…
It feels to me like Shopify is single-handedly keeping Ruby alive. A little bit like Jane Street and O'Caml.
Anecdotal I know, but from the moment that it appeared on my resume in 2012 it's been non-stop. Probably 80% of everything I hear about.
Ruby and it's ecosystem brings the closest thing to natural Aspect Oriented Programming that I've seen in the wild, which is why it's so much more productive than everything else I've tried.
It feels to me like Shopify is single-handedly keeping Ruby alive. A little bit like Jane Street and O'Caml.
You're going to incur the wrath for saying the silent part, but you're not wrong. People have the same 5 rails example corps every time someone says one of these two things: - without rails nobody would use ruby - without X corp, ruby's dead Fact is, we're seeing less and less usage, and more and more distillation of the current userbase along the golden paths laid out by DHH. Is it wrong for rails and thus ruby adop…
If you look at PostgreSQL then a lot of dev work comes from EnterpriseDB and a handful of companies too.
The thing with Rails is that it doesn't scale terrible well to "Twitter scale" (if I'm not mistaken Twitter has dropped all usage of Rails) so there aren't that many well-known companies running it, but the overwhelming majority of companies are not "Twitter scale" and it's not really an issue for them. There's a long list of smaller outfits that are not in the "top 50" using Rails quite happily.
People focus too much on "What is {Twitter,Facebook,Google,Amazon,Netflix,...} doing?" Who cares? You're never going to have the same problems they have. And whatever they are doing is not necessarily representative for the entire industry.
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You're going to incur the wrath for saying the silent part, but you're not wrong. People have the same 5 rails example corps every time someone says one of these two things: - without rails nobody would use ruby - without X corp, ruby's dead Fact is, we're seeing less and less usage, and more and more distillation of the current userbase along the golden paths laid out by DHH. Is it wrong for rails and thus ruby adop…
Looking for a job right now, not limited to any specific language, and I see Ruby mentioned plenty of times. Based on that, it seems the reports of Ruby's decline are not as bad as sometimes claimed. If you look at PostgreSQL then a lot of dev work comes from EnterpriseDB and a handful of companies too. The thing with Rails is that it doesn't scale terrible well to "Twitter scale" (if I'm not mistaken Twitter has dro…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're going to incur the wrath for saying the silent part, but you're not wrong. People have the same 5 rails example corps every time someone says one of these two things: - without rails nobody would use ruby - without X corp, ruby's dead Fact is, we're seeing less and less usage, and more and more distillation of the current userbase along the golden paths laid out by DHH. Is it wrong for rails and thus ruby adop…
Looking for a job right now, not limited to any specific language, and I see Ruby mentioned plenty of times. Based on that, it seems the reports of Ruby's decline are not as bad as sometimes claimed. If you look at PostgreSQL then a lot of dev work comes from EnterpriseDB and a handful of companies too. The thing with Rails is that it doesn't scale terrible well to "Twitter scale" (if I'm not mistaken Twitter has dro…