Rails 5 + Ruby + React learned in less than a month. Im so ffff tired, but have to keep moving to reach deadline for an app with already 2K hours in with team.

Still better than working on Wordpress.

Still better than being unemployed and counting your days!!!

hi @GreatGitsby nice username you've got! 😊

Hmm I thought ruby is falling behind now and people are moving to other tech instead of moving to ruby

Ruby does beat php any day so that's a win.

@ninjatini but what doesn't? 😃

@vertti maybe vb... I have to use that sometimes for my job and it's very stupid in certain ways.

Ok - now I need your help. I built a web application using PHP, MySql and so on. But there is this feeling in my head that PHP is... The old man of server side http programming languages.

Now I thought about switching to ruby on rails... But now you're telling me that it isn't... That good?

So what's good? What language to you prefer?

@vertti or for short: What do you mean by 'other tech'?

@Levy I suggest you look into elixir. It's incredibly performant and fast. It's fault tolerance is second to none and handles distributed systems naturally. Also a pleasure to program in (compared to node for example)

The syntax also quite resembles ruby from what I've heard. Rubyists are now moving to elixir in heaps

@Levy Use the right tool for the right job. If php works, use php. But I'd probably use python if I were going to need application logic, postgres for db, and I really like elm for front end stuff but I'm not sure how battleridden it is.

Oh and use nginx if you need a server, it way out performs Apache. Those are just my observations.

Ruby is ❤

@Levy node.js / express is serverside javascript and it's replacing slowly but steadly ruby on rails in many cases.
But stick with ror, its a valuable and easy to use tool. Elixir is the newest hottest shit right now.

Does react with Rails provide a performance boost than just Rails?

@Faraaz two entirely different technologies doing two entirely different things.

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@Ashkin I understand that. What I don't know is, why use react with Rails? Are there benefits?
I have no idea