Re:Stop hating Java
by onemoreact on Friday July 22, 2011 @11:34AM
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Unless you have horrable retention issues highering someone who does not know the language your using is not that big of an issue. Taking a C# ASP.NET developer > Ruby on rails is faster than bringing a Java developer who knows nothing about the web into a large Spring/Struts project.
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That might be true for a basic/early Rails app where it's ok to have script kiddie relationship with Ruby, but if you have a more complex app, I don't think the learning curve is quite as easy as you're making it sound.
My own experience with Rail is that I quickly wanted to see inside and control all of the implicit stuff that was going on, and I needed to invest a lot more time to learn Ruby to have the knowledge that would give the amount of control I wanted.