Ask HN: Ruby on Rails vs Go – What would you suggest to a newbie webdev? why?

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I am a newbie web developer. I have had no prior app development experience using other languages such as PHP or Ruby. for months I have been learning Go and web application development through books .I have been writing small web apps. I also read some good example code. I can understand it as well. But now I have and idea for a large web app. The thing is I have no idea how to put it all together.I am really confused where to begin? what to write first routes or models or templates?how should be my workflow so that it will be easy to refactor code later. P.S. that web app is kinda like hacker news but with a job board.so it will be having authentication , users ,posts etc

So will it more easy to start with Ruby on Rails

I would recommend Go with the Beego framework. It is very popular in the far east but not so much in English-language countries. Except that it is an excellent framework for Go. I have done RoR, vanilla Node.JS and Meteor, but I my preference is Go/Beego. Static typing and simple, consistent API.

you would like my book, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook.

I had the exact same problems when I started out with Go, so I wrote this small guide, it helps because it teaches with an example ToDo app

The trend I'm seeing is that PHP is still strong - in terms of usage and there are loads of companies using it. RoR has had a slight downward trend and that Go is in a massive up-tick.

For jobs in legacy codebase, PHP. For new stuff Go

But really, when determining candidate qualifications its more about shipping a project than which tools you use

Neither of them. Elixir/Phoenix is the way.

why? isn't it new? how can it be helpful for a new beginner?

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