Which learning path makes the most amount of sense? (lemmy.goblackcat.com)

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I just found out about The Odin Project, a self-paced online course to learn full stack web development. There are two paths: one is Ruby on Rails and the other is full JavaScript and nodejs. I am leaning more towards Ruby but I wanted to get some more opinions from folks in the field.

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[-] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

You will not find much to do with Ruby. Node is more popular and more in demand. A lot companies and OSS project have o Node. Ruby is very niche.

[-] ablackcatstail@lemmy.goblackcat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I thought Ruby was still pretty relevant given that Mastodon is essentially coded in Ruby but I am coming to the same conclusion you are based on another person's comment.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Ruby is used in some large, older existing projects (e.g. GitLab, Redmine, Puppet) but my impression is that a lot of them do not have very much active development of the Ruby parts going on any more.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, which makes Ruby one of those languages like COBOL, you can make a lot of money if you're in that world, but I wouldn't ever recommend that someone should try and join that world, it's going to be too hard to get in to and it might not stick around for long. I know some people that make a lot of money working in Ruby, but that doesn't mean that anyone can, unlike javascript which will be valuable anywhere

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