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People still use ruby?
I just started a new php gig
I fucking love PHP. I know I probably sound crazy to most developers, but PHP 8+ is freaking dope.
Yeah I was also pleasantly surprised having only heard about it before. Lots of good stuff
I haven't used or read about PHP after college, and I am quite interesred in what are the good stuffs that you like now.
It is cool to see how languages evolve.
I haven’t used php before and I am not that far into it yet, so I don’t really know what’s gotten better but I like how it handles arrays and it has loads of little functions that make life easier.
It’s best not to think about what PHP used to be. It will make you sick. Just know that it is very mature at this point. It is not as Serverless friendly as some of the other languages, but if you were running a VPS with a more traditional LAMP style set up, you can’t go wrong with PHP
I work with Delphi.
The handful of us have moved onto Crystal Lang. It's a statically type checked and compiled dialect of Ruby. Crystal is fun to write code, but the compiler is slower (compared to go-lang/rust)... because... well it's a ruby dialect (with DSL's)... and the 3rd party libraries are limited.
This type checking, is it at run time?
Its AOT compiled.
I had a coworker choose RoR for a major project despite the fact that he didn't know it, nobody on his team knew it, nobody at our company knew it, and nobody in the entire state knew it. It ended as one would expect, after three years and millions of dollars spent, with the only revenue it generated being $50K from the original client that had to be refunded to avoid a lawsuit.
Besides Crystal, a lot of people went to Elixir and Phoenix as well
Yes
Not people who are employed. 😇
I guess I'm the only one then
And I'm the only one too!
You probably use it everyday and didn't know it https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/building-github-with-ruby-and-rails/
That explains a lot about how GitHub works… or doesn’t.