"From JavaScript" also includes another side: When your frontend is in JS, your backend can be a simple REST API. And building a REST API requires much less framework than building a server-side-rendering webapp does, so it's tempting to use Go or Rust or whatever you like.
Re:Python Is Eating the World
by jbverschoor on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:28PM
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You’ll need (probably) at least:
-Database connection
-An ORM
-Middleware against attacks / rate limiting
-Caching
-Jobs / workers
-A rendering engine for email and maybe pdf
-Some sort of admin/backend
-Logging
-Validation
I’ve written an API once from scratch. Actually twice. First time in Modena, because it was all the hype, but it was arcane. Then Sinatra, where I ended up creating all of the above. Rails is excellent for APIs.
Rust is nice, but I’m not sure if I’d like it for all of an API. I don’t like go. Crystal seems great, because it’s typed and it’s also super fast.
Have you looked at Graphiti? Haven't had a chance to use it but it looks great for creating APIs in rails:
Agreed. I still think that ruby is great for jamming out an API (far better in terms of development speed than go or rust) but a lot of the great gems that can speed up development assume server side rendering. That plus the fact that go/rust/whatever are probably more "interesting" and faster (at runtime) than ruby is an additional obstacle (for ruby!).
* From javascript. If you have a app like front end, you are going to use js. Why not have the whole stack be js and have your developers use only one language.
* From python for anything web + data science. Again, why not have your whole stack be in one language?
* From lack of hype. Rails is still evolving, but a lot of packages are not seeing releases (I have used packages 3-4 years old). This indicates to me that the energy isn't there in the community the way it used to be. I have seen the consultants who are always on the bleeding edge move on to elixir.
That said I have seen plenty of startups using ruby (really rails) and staffing when I hired for ruby wasn't an issue.
I do help run a local ruby meetup and attendance is good but not exceptional (15-40 people every month). So that may skew my viewpoint.