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As someone with about 15 years of php under his belt, and now writing my second ruby app…i don’t know I’ll ever go back. It’s just so easy…



It’s easy indeed. Easy to make mistakes you don’t know were there until they bite you firmly in the arse.

Again I’m not interested in how quickly you can create an app.

I’m interested in your ability to maintain very complex business logic over the course of years.

Working at a Ruby shop now, I can say with confidence I will never touch it again with however long of a pole I can find.


> I’m interested in your ability to maintain very complex business logic over the course of years.

I think this is a bit over the top. You can maintain complex business logic in any language (any language!) for decades with discipline and good software development processes.

Ruby lets you do a lot that could bite you, but it's people who write code.




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