Ruby: time to move on

Let’s be honest, Ruby became mainstream a few years back and it isn’t the cool underground programming language it once was. It’s quite likely that your cousin’s boyfriend who’s “into computers” knows what Ruby on Rails is. There are hundreds of books, conferences, training and meetups for Rubyists. Recruiters fight to hire whoever knows how to generate a scaffolded Rails app. But now cool kids can’t stop talking about node.js, CoffeeScript, Clojure, Haskell and pushing code to the UI layer. What does it mean for the new, existing and prospecting Ruby developers? Is it time to jump ship and move on to something else?

http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/02/04/larubyconf-2012/
Video: http://confreaks.com/videos/816-larubyconf2012-time-to-move-away-from-ruby

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1. ruby time to move on LA RubyConf 2012 - Matt Aimonetti @merbist Tuesday, April 17, 12
2. matt aimonetti @merbist Tuesday, April 17, 12
3. career Tuesday, April 17, 12
4. france Tuesday, April 17, 12
5. england Tuesday, April 17, 12
6. Tuesday, April 17, 12
7. immigrated Tuesday, April 17, 12
8. usa Tuesday, April 17, 12
9. quit Tuesday, April 17, 12
10. freelancer Tuesday, April 17, 12
11. consultant Tuesday, April 17, 12
12. scea Tuesday, April 17, 12
13. now hiring Tuesday, April 17, 12
14. macruby Tuesday, April 17, 12
15. ruby Tuesday, April 17, 12
16. web 2.0 was cool! Tuesday, April 17, 12
17. java, php, .net, python and of course c & c++ Tuesday, April 17, 12
18. ruby Tuesday, April 17, 12
19. cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
20. • poor performance cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
21. • poor performance • poor documentation cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
22. • poor performance • poor documentation • poor tooling cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
23. • poor performance • poor documentation • poor tooling • small community cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
24. • poor performance • poor documentation • poor tooling • small community • unproven cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
25. • poor performance • poor documentation • poor tooling • small community • unproven • cool language cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
26. • poor performance • poor documentation • poor tooling • small community • unproven • cool language • interesting web framework cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
27. • poor performance • poor documentation • poor tooling • small community • unproven • cool language • interesting web framework • focus on tests cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
28. • poor performance • poor documentation • poor tooling • small community • unproven • cool language • interesting web framework • focus on tests • not PHP, Java or .Net cons pros 2005 Tuesday, April 17, 12
29. Tuesday, April 17, 12
30. ruby Tuesday, April 17, 12
31. 2012 Tuesday, April 17, 12
32. • better performance (still not great) 2012 Tuesday, April 17, 12
33. • better performance (still not great) • great documentation 2012 Tuesday, April 17, 12
34. • better performance (still not great) • great documentation • training 2012 Tuesday, April 17, 12
35. • better performance (still not great) • great documentation • training • better tooling (still not great) 2012 Tuesday, April 17, 12
36. • better performance (still not great) • great documentation • training • better tooling (still not great) • huge community (327,684 Ruby devs) 2012 Tuesday, April 17, 12
37. • better performance (still not great) • great documentation • training • better tooling (still not great) • huge community (327,684 Ruby devs) • proven (37signals, twitter, scea, livingsocial) 2012 Tuesday, April 17, 12
38. • better performance (still not great) • great documentation • training • better tooling (still not great) • huge community (327,684 Ruby devs) • proven (37signals, twitter, scea, livingsocial) • rails is the new php 2012 Tuesday, April 17, 12
39. 2012 best programming language Tuesday, April 17, 12
40. can you prove it? Tuesday, April 17, 12
41. no you can’t Tuesday, April 17, 12
42. it’s not science Tuesday, April 17, 12
43. is it religion? Tuesday, April 17, 12
44. see things through the same world view, applying the same values. Tuesday, April 17, 12
45. community evangelism “you’re doing it wrong” bashing of other communities fanatics secret hand gestures the ruby way Tuesday, April 17, 12
46. “I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Alan J. Perlis, SICP preface Tuesday, April 17, 12
47. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen [...] Alan J. Perlis, SICP preface Tuesday, April 17, 12
48. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands.” Alan J. Perlis, SICP preface Tuesday, April 17, 12
49. it’s religion Tuesday, April 17, 12
50. it’s philosophy Tuesday, April 17, 12
51. language designers Tuesday, April 17, 12
52. values Tuesday, April 17, 12
53. problems to focus on Tuesday, April 17, 12
54. objectives Tuesday, April 17, 12
55. choices Tuesday, April 17, 12
56. cost Tuesday, April 17, 12
57. relatively good/bad based on the values Tuesday, April 17, 12
58. understand the framework of reference Tuesday, April 17, 12
59. the right tool for the job Tuesday, April 17, 12
60. Tuesday, April 17, 12
61. Tuesday, April 17, 12
62. Tuesday, April 17, 12
63. Tuesday, April 17, 12
64. Tuesday, April 17, 12
65. Tuesday, April 17, 12
66. the right tool for the job insert troll face insert troll face Tuesday, April 17, 12
67. ruby Tuesday, April 17, 12
68. Yukihiro Matsumoto Tuesday, April 17, 12
69. expressiveness Tuesday, April 17, 12
70. harmony & consistency Tuesday, April 17, 12
71. freedom with guidelines Tuesday, April 17, 12
72. make programmers happy... Tuesday, April 17, 12
73. ...so they can focus on the end result. Tuesday, April 17, 12
74. not performance Tuesday, April 17, 12
75. not simplicity Tuesday, April 17, 12
76. not web oriented Tuesday, April 17, 12
77. Tuesday, April 17, 12
78. Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas Tuesday, April 17, 12
79. don’t argue about tastes, argue about use cases Tuesday, April 17, 12
80. 8 There is more than one way to skin a cat Tuesday, April 17, 12
81. business value is what you deliver, not how you deliver Tuesday, April 17, 12
82. Tuesday, April 17, 12
83. how much longer? Tuesday, April 17, 12
84. Tuesday, April 17, 12
85. values s y n t a x Tuesday, April 17, 12
86. deliverables p r e f e r e n c e s Tuesday, April 17, 12
87. Tuesday, April 17, 12
88. • expressiveness • harmony & consistency • freedom with guidelines • make programmers happy • focus on product Tuesday, April 17, 12
89. • built in support in Rails 3 • Really easy • Can mix and match • No excuses Tuesday, April 17, 12
90. Tuesday, April 17, 12
91. • 1 single language • designed for async ops • focus on non-blocking IOs • great community • fun why Tuesday, April 17, 12
92. IO bound Async (FB) APIs streaming good use cases Tuesday, April 17, 12
93. Tuesday, April 17, 12
94. • functional (scheme) • JVM • Java interop • community of smart folks • different perspective Tuesday, April 17, 12
95. • APIs • performance • high concurrency • avoid complexity good use cases Tuesday, April 17, 12
96. • http://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans • Ring (like Ruby’s Rack) • Compojure (like Ruby’s Sinatra) getting started Tuesday, April 17, 12
97. Tuesday, April 17, 12
98. Tuesday, April 17, 12
99. “rails” developers Tuesday, April 17, 12
100. “ruby” developers Tuesday, April 17, 12
101. developers Tuesday, April 17, 12
102. problem solvers Tuesday, April 17, 12
103. product builders Tuesday, April 17, 12
104. ruby is just a detail Tuesday, April 17, 12
105. matt aimonetti @ m e r b i s t Tuesday, April 17, 12
106. be ready to move on http://mattetti.github.com Tuesday, April 17, 12