Time to Move Away from Ruby
summary
Ruby is mainstream but not the fastest; community size gets quoted as 327,684 Ruby developers. Rails drives adoption, but many app responsibilities move to the client so consider alternatives: CoffeeScript is easy to learn — 15–20 minutes in one hackathon, and Node.js offers a single language front and back with nonblocking I/O suited to IO‑bound apps, streaming and simple APIs. Clojure runs on the JVM, reuses Java libraries and favors immutability for high concurrency. Be a product builder and pick tools by use case.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 6:09Secret Hand Gestures
- 8:20Language Designers
- 9:37Choose the Right Tool for the Job
- 24:30Closure
