I don't particularly disagree however one thing that Node gives you that you really don't get with Ruby is a wide base of talent with strong familiarity with the underlaying language. Sure there are ruby guys, but nearly every company with a website has someone at least moderately competent in JS. Being able to leverage your existing investment in talent and get more work done for the same dollar is hard to argue against.
Sure you can say "but front end and back end are completely different". Fact is they are, but with node on the backend, the language is still the same. I would argue having your front and back end guys talking the same language all the way through the stack is a powerful way to increase productivity. Just my 2c. FYI I'm still more of a Java guy myself. I like node especially to prototype things, but I keep finding myself writing my serious stuff in Java for some reason. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Lonnie Olson <li...@kittypee.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:34 PM, S. Dale Morrey <sdalemor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Most of the people I've seen using rails in the past are moving to node > or > > scala because of scalability issues where rails just couldn't handle the > > load. > > That's not an endorsement and is literally just andecdotal since I've > never > > seen anything myself that ruby couldn't handle. > > IMHO, most of the people leaving RoR for nodejs are only those types > that just jump to the New Kid on the Block because it's new. First > they switched to RoR because it was the new hawtness, now nodejs is. > This group of people is large, but it does not mean that it is the > smart path. > > I'm not suggesting that RoR or nodejs don't have good uses, or are bad > technologies. I am only denigrating this one sub-culture. Let them > bleed on the cutting edge, and use their experiences to judge the > technology after they are bored. > > Though this supposed migration of the bleeding-edgers(tm) likely means > it's a good time to properly evaluate RoR. :) > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
