Re:On software popularity
by matthewmacleod on Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:41PM
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It's an interesting thought.
I'm primarily a Ruby developer. Literally every single time I've started a web-oriented project using something like Sinatra or Padrino etc., I've ended up regretting it. I end up building a shitty, half-featured, buggy version of Rails. My experience is that most other projects end up the same.
I suppose mileage may vary; perhaps it's easier to write bloated apps in Rails. I'm not convinced that's a good reason to avoid it, though.
Re:On software popularity
by rcfox on Thursday April 09, 2015 @03:44PM
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I don't know anything about the libraries mentioned, but it sounds like you've decided that the Rails way is the correct way to do things, and then try to shoehorn that into the others.
I'm primarily a Ruby developer. Literally every single time I've started a web-oriented project using something like Sinatra or Padrino etc., I've ended up regretting it. I end up building a shitty, half-featured, buggy version of Rails. My experience is that most other projects end up the same.
I suppose mileage may vary; perhaps it's easier to write bloated apps in Rails. I'm not convinced that's a good reason to avoid it, though.