alt Hacker NewsWe currently have two major apps, One in typescript and one in rails. I have to hire devs for both, and I have not experienced it being any more difficult to find a rails developer or a node/typescript developer. If anything, I think finding a rails developer with relevant experience is even easier because the stack is so much more standardized. With people with node experience, there is a huge chance that they won't actually have any experience with the libraries that we are using, even though they've used other libraries in the node ecosystem. With rails, however, pretty much everybody with experience in a rails app will be able to jump into our application and will see a lot of stuff that is familiar right out of the gate.
I'm personally an elixir Phoenix Fanboy now, so I don't choose rails as my first choice for personal projects, but I think it is an excellent choice for a company. In fact, I would probably recommend it the most over any framework if you need to hire for it.
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I really hope that Elixir / Phoenix will gain more traction.
It is very easy to write a server with it, hosting and deploying is painless, upgrading it (so far) has been painless, linting and debugging has been a breeze.
If you're coming from Ruby, then learning Elixir requires a small mental adjustment (from Object Oriented to Functional). Once you get over that hump, programming in Elixir is just as much fun as Ruby! :)
That's a point which cannot be underestimated, almost every Rails codebase looks mostly the same while I've never seen two similar node projects. Standardization also has advantages on training and hiring.
>If anything, I think finding a rails developer with relevant experience is even easier because the stack is so much more standardized.
This has been my experience.