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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by rualca on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:31AM (#25101447)
> If you knew Ruby and not the Python, the whole scenario would have been flipped.

That's why popularity matters. The odds that any random kid already has experience with Python are far greater than him knowing Ruby.

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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by joelbluminator on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:21PM (#25103377)
I get the point, it's not completely invalid. And still, calling Rails "obscure" is a stretch. In web dev world it's still a pretty dominant framework. There shouldn't really be any problem to hire Ruby guys afaik.
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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by ricketycricket on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:31AM (#25101912)
This was the argument for php in 2010.
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Re:Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails by squam on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:44PM (#25103042)
Not popularity, but familiarity. You don’t have to play the odds if you already know what tools your team has experience with.
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