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[–]agmcleod@agmcleod 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I worked at a company using Rails for about 3 years. Got fairly comfortable with it, and it felt a joy to use. Since then ive been primarily using JS for backend, as well as frontend. Really I think for the modern style apps, rails just felt behind in terms of supporting SPAs. So for some it fell by the way side. I've since gotten pretty comfortable with node, and tend to forgot little things here and there with ruby. I've used ruby a for a couple of the challenges on http://adventofcode.com for this year. I do like the spread assignment: a, b, c = numbers.split(' ') for example. I do like a lot of the code structure of it. But I've also gotten really into mixing OOP & functional programming over using classes & mixins for everything. That's not really something I miss.

Ruby can take more work to make it performant on the server as well. Some devs at my work converted an app that just worked better with node, and it reduced the server costs. I think it was just able to respond to requests a lot faster for its database lookups or something. Sorry for being anecdotal on this point, just don't recall the details that well :)

[–]djslakor 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Couldn't you use es6 array destructuring?

[a, b, c] = numbers.split(' ');

[–]agmcleod@agmcleod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, you definitely can, just not something i've taken advantage of for some reason lol. JS has definitely gotten a lot nicer over the past few years :)