Ask HN: Why would one learn Ruby on Rails in 2020?

2 points·aloukissas··7 comments

Considering diving into RoR, mostly because it's a trusted technology choice that powers some of the biggest websites (e.g. Shopify).

Currently I've got pretty good hands-on experience with Flask, Phoenix, and Express.

Any reason to perhaps skip RoR over something newer, say Go (with whatever web/API framework)?

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Because it remains the fastest way to launch and iterate on a product, even in 2020. You could certainly augment it with a React or Vue on the front-end, but Rails is pretty unbeatable even now.

That's the main reason that draws me to RoR.

Prisma, Hasura, BEaaS, and low code may be faster options now. Depends on experience. It you don't know RoR, Prisma is probably faster to get going with

Hiring and job prospects, the tech you know already, what people around you use (at work for example).

These can inform the decision to or not. What's the draw to RoR?

Curiosity. Also I'm very drawn to technologies that have stood the test of time (vs new and shiny things).

Go is a good in the middle, modern, well thought out for contemporary development process pains, and definitely one of the top languages going forward.

There are a ton of frameworks around Go now, some of which aim to be the GoR.

You might like something like https://apollokit.org It's full stack JS/TS with grapgql, lots of batteries out of the box.

TBH, I skip on devs who's primary thing is RoR

Many reasons. - Ruby is designed for Programmer Happiness. - Convention over Configuration - Omakase: https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html - Its an Majestic Monolith: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith/ - Tons of libraries

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