Comments on: Rails Is Old Hat, and That’s Okay https://programmingzen.com/rails-is-an-old-hat/ Meditations on programming, startups, and technology Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: sshaw https://programmingzen.com/rails-is-an-old-hat/#comment-29025 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 04:32:29 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1579#comment-29025 Rails succeeded because it was flat out better than the alternatives on most (all) fronts: better language -syntactically, which means DSL, no XML, better development environment (reloading, autoloading), better libraries for web dev (ActionView::Helpers, ActiveSupport’s various core ext), the list goes on…

Overall JavaScript is a pretty poor (but powerful) language that is lucky enough to be the defacto language on the platform of the 21st century. Is it really any better than everyones favorite punching bag, after PHP: Perl?

Now Node.js certainly has it’s use, but non blocking certainly is not new or exclusive to it.

So I wonder, are people using Node.js and/or JavaScript out of necessity or hype?

This is a good followup to your article: http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascript-in-2015

May also be good to check what Steve Yegge was saying about JS on the server some years back:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.html

Ah Rhino…

]]> By: Antonio Cangiano https://programmingzen.com/rails-is-an-old-hat/#comment-29024 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:22:48 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1579#comment-29024 In reply to John.

I questioned whether that was the case. Good to know. 🙂

]]> By: John https://programmingzen.com/rails-is-an-old-hat/#comment-29023 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:20:02 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1579#comment-29023 It’s just “old hat”, not “an old hat” 🙂

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/old-hat.html

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