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511 points mootrichard | 4 comments | 29 Jul 20 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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davidkellis ◴[29 Jul 20 18:50 UTC] No.23990278[source]▶
At some point it makes more sense to switch to Crystal.
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mrkurt ◴[29 Jul 20 18:58 UTC] No.23990354[source]▶
Crystal is amazing (we sponsor it at Fly.io), but the sheer amount of stuff that's already built for Ruby makes it hard to switch to another language.

Node has had 10 years and its still not there.

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rch ◴[29 Jul 20 19:47 UTC] No.23990832[source]▶
> still not there

And never will be.

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1. hombre_fatal ◴[29 Jul 20 20:15 UTC] No.23991069{3}[source]▶
Not sure what you're saying. What are places where Node isn't caught up to Ruby and can never catch up to Ruby?

Ruby on Rails seems like a kneejerk response, but then again it doesn't exist because nobody really wants it, not for technical reasons.

For example, Python has all the ML/math stuff. Nothing comes to mind for Ruby.

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2. rch ◴[29 Jul 20 20:37 UTC] No.23991326[source]▶
I think the parent comment was referring to the overall market position of RoR, and I'm saying that Node isn't likely to achieve an equivalently dominant share going forward, due at least in part to the wide variety of options available.
3. joelbluminator ◴[29 Jul 20 22:08 UTC] No.23992129[source]▶
No one really wants it other than the guys who use Sails I guess...or is the name just a coincidence?
4. simplify ◴[30 Jul 20 02:16 UTC] No.23993709[source]▶
> it doesn't exist because nobody really wants it.

Clearly not true, as there's two separate fullstack frameworks being actively developed[0][1], not mentioning the ones in the past (sails.js, meteor.js).

[0] https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz [1] https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood