Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails

Re:Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails by mindcrime on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @04:26PM (#6643115)

Did not read TFA, but my immediate thought on seeing this headline is "No, it won't". Why? Because software never really seems to die. Look at the billions of lines of COBOL or PL/I or FORTRAN still in use around the world. Look at the fact that (a few) people still use OS/2, which is about as dead as software ever really gets.

Rails may well find it's popularity and prestige diminished, but I doubt it'll "die" anytime in any of our lifetimes.

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Re:Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails by j1z0 on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @09:20PM (#6644687)

100% agree here. Way to many Rails developers around for it to die. Also as cool as Meteor is, and it's pretty cool. There is a huge continent of developers that will resist javascript for as long as possible, because even though it is ubiquitous, let's be honesty, it does suck in a number of ways. Ruby / Python / Go / etc.. are all so much nicer languages from a developer happiness perspective. Ultimately javascript will become more and more prevalent for sure, and Meteor along with it, but only because all the browsers decided to support it, NOT because of developer happiness.

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Re:Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails by pyGuru on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @09:24PM (#6644703)

if only all the browsers would run python... now that would be developer happiness. ;)

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Re:Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails by krapp on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @09:47PM (#6644757)

unless you happen to be one of those sickos who thinks significant whitespace is a terrible idea....

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