Ruby on Rails is out: major coding bootcamp ditches it, due to waning interest (opens in new tab)

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5 pointsremremz8y ago3 comments

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I'm not sure how does "RoR courses are out" translates into RoR is out.

1) One of the reasons why such camps\courses exist is to train new workforce.

2) One of the reasons why any language may be losing its popularity is because the market has more than enough workforce which means it is now cheaper to hire (good for a company), but also means less money for a fresh emploee.

1 and 2 gives you the reason to think that they are now trying to shift the market. We have enough RoR guys here, but we need more Java chefs once again.

PS: I do not use RoR so this is written without much of a knowledge about current state of the framework in the US market.

meesterdude8y ago

> Replacing it is a Java course, which will emphasize the Spring application development framework.

So this is what progress looks like?

geebee8y ago

Yeah, that kind of surprised me too. I would have expected a move to Node, or some other javascript framework.

I did think the quotes from Zed Shaw and Paul Watson were good. Zed's point, that Rails and Django are server-rendered frameworks written before the client-side, front end era, does sum up why I think interest in Rails is declining.

And Paul Watson's comment explains why, in spite of this, I'd still be inclined (for now) to use Rails for a lot of projects. If you're mainly dealing with web forms, in a light to medium traffic app, you don't necessarily get much from the front-end heavy frameworks. They add complexity, and can slow (bog) you down.

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