On 1/30/2014 10:08 AM, Richard Esplin wrote:
Changing topics: What do you have against Ruby on Rails?
I haven't done much with RoR, but it seems promising. My team is currently
deciding between Django and Rails for our next project. I already understand
Django, but what should I know about Rails?
A few reasons:
- I think Ruby is hideous (aesthetic, I know)
- Until recently Rails performance has been horrendous. It's not
"great" now, mind you, but it is at least competitive. I just have the
stigma left over (I had a similar issue with Java for a good two years
after 1.3)
- The Rails community is riddled with elitism and negativity. There's
conjecture on why this is, but I haven't seen a whole lot against its
existence. This is to say nothing of the Ruby community as a whole,
mind you, though I hear it bleeds into that.
- A very personal reason is that too many useless startups are using
Rails and I can not get them to shut up about it when they find me.
Twitter was actually done in Rails for a long time (before it performed
at all well).
I used to have a less clearly decided winner in my mind. Now that we're
years past the social fallout of the Ruby/Python internet wars hilarity,
I just feel Python got more traction than Ruby and so I stick with it.
Ruby still has an active community and some compelling applications use
it, but I just can't go there now.
A lot of personal preference, I know, but there you have it.
-Tod Hansmann
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