This has (in my opinion) lead to a false sense that if something is not hyped as often, then its not used either.
At this poitn you can find tools that can make demos easier to build or get you further in a hackathon, but Rails embodies "Slow is steady and steady is fast." If you're trying to build something that will stick around and can grow (like a startup outside of the latest VC crazes) then Rails will arguably do better at keeping your tools relevant and supported in the long run. That is, assuming you're building something that needs a steady backend for your application.
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I don't understand this at all. ruby on rails is probably peak technology for getting something up an running fast at a hackathon. its a very streamlined experince with a ton of drop in plugins for getting to the product part of the mvp. Maintaining a ruby app is a nightmare overtime. At least it was 5 years ago the last time I worked fulltime in a startup using ruby on rails.
These days I use elixir. its higher performance and reasonably fast to write in but I woudln't say its as productive as ruby on rails if you're competing in a hackathon.
Nothing in ruby forces you to make it a monolith of course, but the lack of types hurts
I’ve started qualifying such statements… “you mean a real engineer or just a software developer?
I do share your opinion on the untyped part, it's a bit of a bummer but there are gems to Ruby that helps with that.
Regarding the monkey patches, it's a concern many have and because of that, there is now a cleaner way of doing it! It's called a refinement. It's like monkey patching but in a more controlled way where you don't affect the global namespace.
https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/syntax/refinements_rdoc...
https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...
Lmao you really think Stripe is still running primarily on Ruby? Yeah it's good for prototyping because it's fast to write in, but unmaintainable as hell for a real business.
Update: found a thread here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834840 I doubt they’ve rewritten everything to Java for the last three years.