• Wanting to mess around with a new language
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So. I currently work as a lead developer mainly in PHP and .NET. Only really been dealing with .NET and classic ASP in a few cases recently and don't particularly want to mess any more with it on personal projects. I know there's a few people here who swear by Ruby and the framework RoR. Just wanted to find out if there's anyone else here who can recommend any particular frameworks aside from RoR using Ruby. I was thinking of trying out something like Flask (Python) or Bottle (Python). But for most part of my career I've been in the PHP / .NET scope. Currently know C#, PHP very well and know Java well enough to do the occasional piss about but nothing production worthy. Just trying to find a language I can start learning while developing a new project idea on the size, which is good for scalability and speed. JIT or not. G
You could check out Node or Go if you don't want to go with Ruby (although that's what I'd really recommend)
[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;44277807]You could check out Node or Go if you don't want to go with Ruby (although that's what I'd really recommend)[/QUOTE] Go looks quite nice from what I checked out. Been messing around with Ruby briefly on codecademy today while on my lunch and must admit out of the two I've definitely preferred it over python. But that being said I don't know either well enough to justify the opinion just yet. Thanks for the feedback :)
Sinatra is a cool Ruby framework, but it lacks features compared to RoR (on purpose, though).
[QUOTE=supersnail11;44281327]Sinatra is a cool Ruby framework, but it lacks features compared to RoR (on purpose, though).[/QUOTE] I don't think it lacks features. They just are not loaded.
[QUOTE=commander204;44343283]I don't think it lacks features. They just are not loaded.[/QUOTE] It [B]definitely[/B] lacks in features compared to rails. Rails gives you a LOT of functionality out of the box, whereas Sinatra is meant to be minimal.
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