Python is used for much more than just web dev and Django, whereas Ruby seams to only be synonymous with Ruby on Rails.
Do you think Rails is still worth using when investing in learning Python and Django has a much higher roi?
Do you think Rails is still worth using when investing in learning Python and Django has a much higher roi?
Rails has been around two decades, Ruby three. Both will still be there down the road when you decide to try it out. A lot of what you learn in your Python work will translate in some way to Ruby & Rails.
I’d also contest your statement that learning Python and Django have a “much higher ROI” - but, I don’t actually want to get into it.
I just never switched to Aptana or Rubymine and now I don't wanna.
Personally I like the ruby-lsp and TPope’s Rails plugin in NeoVim.
I dislike heavy weight IDEs, I never find the juice is worth the squeeze.
On the plus side, ruby-lsp is always being improved and worked on, so just like Ruby in general it's only getting better at what it does.
Once you get past the beginner level in Django, you're going to pick up a ton of Python knowledge (standard dunder methods, MRO, standard lib, data type's im/mutability, package ecosystem, etc.) and muscle memory along the way. Django (for the most part) is just plain old Python data structures, classes, and functions that a decent Django dev will apart, reuse, override, repurpose, and add on to as they do more interesting things. Python is boring (in a good way), however it has a lot of surface area (std lib is massive) and intricacies that a Django dev will pick up along the way to becoming an intermediate/advanced dev. It would take someone coming in fresh to Python quite a while to catch up. Naturally, if the same person knew several languages, the ramp up would be quite a bit quicker.
Seems to be... But it can be used for anything Python is. There's ML libraries, bindings to stuff like Torch, all the math-y stuff like Python, all sorts of stuff. Also it's a great language to just roll your own scripts, programs, etc... Then there's also mruby, which can be embedded like Lua...
> Rails is still worth using
Yes. Hotwire + Hotwire Native are great tech. The whole suite is integrated in a way that Django isn't ime. I prefer the strong default approach for most things.