Ruby on Rails.. worth it?
Right, my brain is obviously reaching that point of healing where it wants to learn something else. I was earlier reading on /. about Ruby on Rails and I wondered “so would it be a good addition to the skill set and is it wirth be bothering with - I already know PHP so another open sauce (as it were) language might be redundant?
I have no idea if we use it at GC, Alex and Andy are the non-MS boyz so I might point them to this post and see what they think..
December 8th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
No, we don’t.
Personally, I’m not keen on the old PHP-esque non-strongly typed, non-compiled languages as I’m a dinosaur.
I hear good things about it but I don’t think it’s my cup of tea.
December 8th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
That’s the thing, there are ways forward rather than .Net/Java but unless it gets widely adopted there is no scope for it.
I know half of the stuff I’ve written at work could be made a *whole* lot easier in PHP (I’m thinking specifically SMS) and it would run a whole lot quicker.. I could do it, it’s not going to be a supported skill set from anyone else so it’s dead in the water.
As you say, the non-compiled/strongly-typed stuff does have it’s place and isn’t a good substitute for everything..