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0 pointsasien4y ago0 comments

I wouldn’t call it a « scam » technically.

But remember GWT ? I work in one Europe largest bank , the majority of internal apps are written in GWT.

In the 2010 era this trend was at its peak.[0]

Some members of the teams decided that they should « invest » in GWT because this would be the future.

Here we are 10 years laters , GWT is a deprecated legacy framework and developers have been burned out by this strategy.

For Jamstack the same will happen , the hype is reaching its peak and is going to come down as developers and businesses realize it doesn’t actually solve anything from their actual problems.

But in the process, people who are selling « Jamstack » books probably made a fortune. Same thing for GWT...

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reitoei4y ago

You're talking about *Jamstack* like it's some kind of proprietary framework or platform.

It's a methodology for building websites in a particular way using an enormously diverse set of tools and platforms. Comparing it to GWT is not correct.

pudmaidai4y ago

What’s your point? Technologies come and go. People built Ruby apps that did their job and now good luck finding maintainers for them. It’s just how our market works. We’re lucky if our stack lasts 10 years.

sethherr4y ago

Ruby is still alive and well! It’s still focused on functionality over flash, and it’s not hard to find developers for it.

quesera4y ago

I agree with your larger point, but FWIW your example does not match my experience.

I've never had any special difficulties hiring Ruby/Rails devs. Quality is high, availability is reasonable (hiring is always something of a struggle!). My first Rails hire was in 2003 (rails-0.8, IIRC) and my most recent was about 6 months ago.

That's 17 years, and counting.

OTOH, I've never had a good time hiring people to maintain EOLed apps. Ruby or otherwise. "Sustaining Engineering" is a (misnamed) trade that isn't as broadly attractive as new development.

Scarbutt4y ago

You may be confusing ruby with perl or clojure.

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