It's more like "Everyone is talking less about Rails" - the only new kid in Rails block is Haml/Sass and Rails is obviously stagnating compared to the hype it had couple or more years ago. Ruby/RoR is more about evolution now: Rubinius, JRuby going for stability, SalesForce adopts Heroku as one of it's development platforms - look, even one of Big 4(DTT) hires RoR-consultants now.
JavaScript on the other hand is booming both on client (SproutCore, Backbone, Cappuccino, CoffeeScript, GWT) and on server (Node). JS is just more "hackish" today - browsers are evolving day-by-day, taking more and more functionality from server - RoR isn't key to success anymore, it has become just another alternative for your REST backend.
Not sure it's fair to say Rails is stagnating. Rails 3 (particularly with the improvements in ActiveRecord) is significantly leaner and nicer to use than Rails 2.
"stagnating __compared to the hype it had couple or more years ago__"
New API for ActiveRecord, modularity, merging with Merb are very important, but it's not a game-changer. Rubinius and RubyMine on the other side are game-changers.
I welcome the stagnation! We started development with Rails when it was at 0.7, and the pain of keeping up with a rapidly developing framework was something I felt some level of resentment for.
I wouldn't say Rails is stagnating, I'd say it is maturing.
For me it's about simplicity. RoR has become a beast almost of asp.net/IIS proportions. I'd rather not deal with the hassle of getting everything set up. That's why I'm in love with Sinatra, Node, and golang.
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It's more like "Everyone is talking less about Rails" - the only new kid in Rails block is Haml/Sass and Rails is obviously stagnating compared to the hype it had couple or more years ago. Ruby/RoR is more about evolution now: Rubinius, JRuby going for stability, SalesForce adopts Heroku as one of it's development platforms - look, even one of Big 4(DTT) hires RoR-consultants now.
JavaScript on the other hand is booming both on client (SproutCore, Backbone, Cappuccino, CoffeeScript, GWT) and on server (Node). JS is just more "hackish" today - browsers are evolving day-by-day, taking more and more functionality from server - RoR isn't key to success anymore, it has become just another alternative for your REST backend.
Not sure it's fair to say Rails is stagnating. Rails 3 (particularly with the improvements in ActiveRecord) is significantly leaner and nicer to use than Rails 2.
"stagnating __compared to the hype it had couple or more years ago__"
New API for ActiveRecord, modularity, merging with Merb are very important, but it's not a game-changer. Rubinius and RubyMine on the other side are game-changers.
I welcome the stagnation! We started development with Rails when it was at 0.7, and the pain of keeping up with a rapidly developing framework was something I felt some level of resentment for.
I wouldn't say Rails is stagnating, I'd say it is maturing.
For me it's about simplicity. RoR has become a beast almost of asp.net/IIS proportions. I'd rather not deal with the hassle of getting everything set up. That's why I'm in love with Sinatra, Node, and golang.