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Re:Ask HN: Is ruby/rails still a good bet? What else should ... by rubiquity on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:53PM (#8743617)
Your experiences are nearly identical to mine. I've also moved away from keeping with the latest JavaScript tools/frameworks and have really taken to Elixir. I still write a ton of Ruby but having Elixir in my tool set has been awesome. Elixir is great for the things Ruby isn't, namely SSE/WebSockets and background processing flows beyond just fire and forget.
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Re:Ask HN: Is ruby/rails still a good bet? What else should ... by hackerboos on Saturday December 13, 2014 @07:36AM (#8745053)
The thing that did it for me was watching Benjamin Tan Wei Hao talk on speeding up background jobs, which was a problem for me at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1J1lVzRuQ

http://www.neo.com/2014/08/11/ruby-elixir-polyglottin-ftw

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