ruby = nothing but a trendy fad
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That can be arranged.
I knew a couple at Carnegie Mellon. But for every cute college programmer there were 70 Asian guys.
It may or may not be what she meant, but I could see how someone with limited time to learn might want to avoid learning something she perceives as "trendy" out of the fear that it would fall out of favor and provide a smaller return on time invested - or that people with that skill will be in oversupply, making her less employable (if she's the job type). Then again, maybe she IS just being a stupid hipster...who knows.
Regardless of the reasons, good for her for learning something new and opening herself up to major criticism from the hateful nerds. There are a ton of awesome, helpful people when you're a girl learning to program, but there's also a certain subset of guys who want nothing more than to discredit you entirely the first time you say something like, "I pinned Bluefish to my taskbar because I love the icon's cute googly eyes."
This actually makes sense, though if something is less trendy there's also less job positions open at any given time so if that's her angle it's a double edged sword. I doubt her thought process was so articulate as yours because her words communicated something completely different.
Doesn't really matter though like you said since we don't know what's going on in her head, for all we know she might be trolling for views.
6 years of growth because it IS trendy. Fucking Ruby hipsters.
That is all.
PS. Lol at all you retards getting all bent out of shape. Shut the fuck up and write some fucking code.
Something that's trendy can still have history and underlying value - like real estate investing. People have done it in various forms for a good portion of recorded history, but there have still been times where it was "trendy".
The point is just that I can see how someone would let the popularity or "trendiness" of a language influence their decision to invest hundreds of hours into learning it. Bear in mind, also, that it sounds like she's in the SF/Silicon Valley area, which is kind of weird and insular and very much prone to having its own little trends that don't necessarily reflect reality outside that area.
It's called differentiation. If you were picking a skill which could lead to opportunities, do you want to be 1 of 10,000 ruby hackers or a much smaller group of CSharp programmers?
Not saying it is a good idea, but there is a rationale for going against the grain. People who follow trends are rarely standouts.
Ruby has always had popularity, Rails just made it more popular and it's popularity has exploded since then. Most people wouldn't consider that "trendy," since that's considered a "fad" of sorts.
True but I doubt that logic applies to framework (programming language) with which you'll realize your idea. Framework is framework, the project you build with it, that's where you need to differentiate yourself.
If our company's existing framework is CSharp, I am not going to hire a Ruby programmer over a CSharp programmer.
There are technical debt considerations when you hire engineers.
Guys, rails has been around since 2004. Ruby has been around since 1995. wtf is this shit about 6 years of trendiness, who cares? Per that logic we should also hate:
Codeigniter
Wordpress
Shopify
LESS
SASS
coffeescript
node
clojure
every other recent programming project created in the last 5 or so years.
a "6 year old fad" isn't a fad anymore in the world of technology. 6 years is an eternity on the internet
Codeigniter
Wordpress
Shopify
LESS
SASS
coffeescript
node
clojure
every other recent programming project created in the last 5 or so years.
a "6 year old fad" isn't a fad anymore in the world of technology. 6 years is an eternity on the internet
I only have OCaml. You've probably never heard of it, but don't worry, you will soon.
