I guess what bothers me a bit about this question is it sounds like it is coming from a place of hedging on a technology - like "should I learn this just because I want to be employable in the future --- or maybe I should pick something else". I understand that is not an unreasonable question but is not really a well grounded inquiry.
Consider philosophy. I have fallen in love with Ruby and Rails for the philosophy - in fact over my self-taught career (and time with Microsoft technologies) I have made so so many mistakes that I have derived for myself the need for much of what these technologies (RoR and alike) afford - from the precept of "programmer happiness" to "convention over configuration", "DRY", ORM layers, TDD, (not that RoR has a monopoly on these, I just think it does pretty well with them). So if Ruby and Rails die tomorrow I carry the principles and create something new because I have a philosophical foundation which has been paid forward by using such. If you have not gotten to this point in your philosophy, start with Rails and you will start in a good place. So to rephrase the question: Will agility, flexibility, adaptability and results stick around for awhile? Good chance with RoR unless the technology goes the wrong direction --- and even so, dont worry about it, because the principles for sure will not die b/c they are attributes of the natural world. On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Musdev Musdev wrote: > > DO you guys see Ruby and Ruby on Rails sticking around for a while? and > > do you see an increase in demand for ruby/ruby on rails developers? > > This question comes up a lot, and speaking for myself I get sort of > tired of answering it. Besides, it's a pointless question that nobody > can really answer. None of us knows the future. > > A much better question is whether Ruby on Rails fits your project needs, > and is it an environment that makes you happy as a developer. Only you > can answer those questions. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
