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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by jbreckmckye on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:20AM (#15643090)
The article states that Ruby has substantial problems.

Many readers will be web developers. The biggest and most lucrative alternative to Ruby in that space is JavaScript.

Therefore: lucaspiller decided to remind people that switching to JS is not a good solution to Ruby's problems.

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by emodendroket on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:27AM (#15643582)
> The biggest and most lucrative alternative to Ruby in that space is JavaScript.

I wonder about this. C#, Java, Python, PHP, hell, even Scala are all viable options.

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by jbreckmckye on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @10:58AM (#15644443)
I'll grant that Java / C# might be more lucrative, but I'm doubtful about the others. The main draw to JS is that if you learn it and use it regularly, you can trade as a full-stack developer.
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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by emodendroket on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @11:56AM (#15645031)
Scala is pretty well-paying, as far as I can tell. And frankly you don't have to be a JS expert to call yourself a full-stack developer; you just have to be conversant. In my experience, anyway. And from what I've seen front-end is the least well-paying specialty.
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