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by cntainer
1314 days ago
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> Ruby sucks in large codebases where conventions aren't well defined The community is working to improve the outside-Rails ecosystem with efforts like dry-rb or ROM. So you can find plenty of useful non-Rails conventions if you look for them, but if you're doing typical web stuff it is hard to compete with the productivity monster that Rails has become. > I don't see any reason to pick Ruby over Typescript if you're not using a popular framework. Types save an incredible amount of time when you're ramping up. I guess RBS and Sorbet are trying to cover this point. I don't know how well they scratch that particular itch of yours as I haven't worked with Ruby for quite some time. |
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When I was still doing Ruby, dry-rb was one of the projects I was excited about, but it didn't ever seem to gain a lot of momentum, and in my experience, Ruby means Rails (or at the very least something like Sinatra + gems originating from Rails) in almost all companies.
I was also left wondering, at some point, why solnica didn't just abandon Ruby for a statically typed functional programming language, as that seemed where he was headed with his efforts. It's what I ended up doing, at least.