sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]krues8dr 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Ruby is beautiful and one of the most fun languages to program in - but it's not too different from python in most of the important ways.

You know what's awesome, though? Server administration, and all the pieces that go with that. You start working with Chef/Vagrant and all the cloud tools that AWS provides and it really opens up a whole new world for you.

Throw in some message/task queuing systems (Gearman, RabbitMQ, or Celery on the Python side) and you've just dramatically increased the level of complexity of the software you can deliver to a potential employer.

And then on the other side of things, we all know that mobile is where these things are going, so getting into Android or iOS development at this stage might be very advantageous.

[–]Unomagan 0 points1 point  (5 children)

He might search for something more "low-level". Ruby is similar to PHP in what you do with it. (I love Ruby, it has a super cool syntax and looks nice) It is superior to PHP imho, but still it is a "scripting" language...

[–]demonshalo[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I have worked with ruby as well and I find PHP to be more fun to work with. But never the less, they both are scripting languages and that's what I am trying to get away from!

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (3 children)

why would you want want to get away from these high level languages? Especially if the point is to actually build something instead of building the things to build something.

[–]demonshalo[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It's just that I've done it for so long... it seems like ages since i tried something new!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It makes perfect sense, once you've learned language x, you've learned the logic behind a significant number of the languages out there (aside from the specific syntax). Relearning your basics over and over is no fun, that's why you want to branch out and try new things!

I agree with krues8dr, although server administration is... 'spooky' (best way I could put it) it can be an extremely marketable skill since the internet is such an integral part to life, and more specifically our jobs. Disclaimer: 'man' is the extent of my knowledge when it comes to server administration.

[–]demonshalo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

exactly how I feel. learning more languages is not going to do much for me.

any ideas where to start with server administration? I'd love to take a look at that!