10 minutes before the announcement that OP is about here, one of our architects copied this line from an AWS slide deck:
> AWS Lambda supports code written in Node.js (JavaScript), Python, Java (Java 8 compatible), and C# (.NET Core) and Go.
... and intimated that, if your language is not on this list, you're not part of the dominant side of the industry.
As if to say, to the large cohort of Ruby developers we have on staff, "You guys are basically irrelevant because Amazon doesn't care if you can work on the pride and joy of their platform or not."
Every other week I've got a different person telling me that Ruby is a quirky niche language and I should get with the times and become a full-stack JavaScript developer instead.
I get it, there's growth in other languages, but if I have years of experience that means I should throw it away?
Sometimes these conversations get really personal, too. Almost like we're choosing a football team, you'd think it was politics or religion that we're debating...
I've learned a lot since I started writing Ruby at my first permanent job in 2010, and I'm 100% sure that if I looked at any of the early Ruby code I wrote in 2010, I'd grumble and groan at it just as hard as if you showed me some PHP code that I wrote at my first co-op job as a sophomore in college.
You can write great code in any language. You can also write a shanty-town or big ball of mud, in practically any language. I think it's unfair to say that PHP in and of itself represents a "bad code smell." But I'm also fairly sure from anecdotal evidence that I'm in the minority.
10 minutes before the announcement that OP is about here, one of our architects copied this line from an AWS slide deck:
> AWS Lambda supports code written in Node.js (JavaScript), Python, Java (Java 8 compatible), and C# (.NET Core) and Go.
... and intimated that, if your language is not on this list, you're not part of the dominant side of the industry.
As if to say, to the large cohort of Ruby developers we have on staff, "You guys are basically irrelevant because Amazon doesn't care if you can work on the pride and joy of their platform or not."
Every other week I've got a different person telling me that Ruby is a quirky niche language and I should get with the times and become a full-stack JavaScript developer instead.
I get it, there's growth in other languages, but if I have years of experience that means I should throw it away?
Sometimes these conversations get really personal, too. Almost like we're choosing a football team, you'd think it was politics or religion that we're debating...