Re:Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge
by octernion on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:17PM
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> I'm not so sure about that. Even though the HN rating system shouldn't be abused to express dis/agreement it often is, and my comment seems to have more upvotes than downvotes so far.
fwiw i voted you up because i strongly believe in constructive discussion around these things. i don't think you should take that as a signal that folks support this position.
> I'm sorry, but saying that as long as your process isn't broken...
i'm merely saying that from several shops i've worked at, including instacart, with many 10k+ lines of code rails codebases, i've never seen problems like what you've described and it sounds pathological for that specific application/company.
again my (and many others') point is that rails is absolutely maintainable, even at massive scale, and even in a world with ever-changing requirements, hard deadlines, and very loosely-understanding clients, and that all that takes is doing rails the "right way" (a comprehensive test suite, reasonable architectural design), and that it is still massively productive.
fwiw i voted you up because i strongly believe in constructive discussion around these things. i don't think you should take that as a signal that folks support this position.
> I'm sorry, but saying that as long as your process isn't broken...
i'm merely saying that from several shops i've worked at, including instacart, with many 10k+ lines of code rails codebases, i've never seen problems like what you've described and it sounds pathological for that specific application/company.
again my (and many others') point is that rails is absolutely maintainable, even at massive scale, and even in a world with ever-changing requirements, hard deadlines, and very loosely-understanding clients, and that all that takes is doing rails the "right way" (a comprehensive test suite, reasonable architectural design), and that it is still massively productive.