Should I learn RoR for freelancing and my startup in 2015?

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rockdev2015-06-01 15:40:45

Ruby on Rails

rockdev, 2015-06-01 15:40:45

Recently, I hear a lot that RoR has no future: the technology is slowly dying.
1) Of course, the peak of popularity has subsided, but are there enough freelance orders now?
2) What are worthy alternatives to RoR?
3) Would you like to learn RoR now and are there any prospects in this solution?

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Pavel Kononenko, 2015-06-01
@premas

Ruby is a must have for any programmer. Be sure to learn rails. They are ideal for startups. And with the proper optimization skills, you can get incredible performance.

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Denis Ineshin, 2015-06-01
@IonDen

Now you can even learn ActionScript, browser-based gamedev on flash will live for years to come. What can we say about RoR. For half of freelancing, server technology is completely out of the question (for example, if the order is a turnkey site, let's say). Otherwise, of course, it is less popular than some PHP, but it all depends on how well you master this tool and how you can solve the tasks assigned to it. In extreme cases, if you know it perfectly, then this will not only not hurt, but will also help you easily master any other language in the future.

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O Di, 2015-06-01
@insiki

Technology is evolving. Rails 5 comes out this year .

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Vladimir Borutkin, 2015-06-01
@Atanvar

We do not live on the web alone, learn python, it is both web and server, mobile and desktop.

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zooks, 2015-06-01
@zooks

90% of freelancing is layout and PHP CMS. But this does not mean that everything else dies or does not exist. A serious OOP language will always be useful, especially since it has a much wider application than just the Web.

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_ _, 2015-06-01
@AMar4enko

Learn JavaScript starting from the Node.JS + ES6 side - the move to mobile is on the rise.
With JS, you can do front-end, hybrid mobile app and server-side, with all the realtime whistles at once.
And with RoR, just drive yourself into patterns, and then you will get out of them for a couple of years.
But in principle, you can master ruby itself for general development.
PS
In the work of a programmer, the main thing is the flexibility of thinking. Sadly, RoR does not contribute to its development in any way.