Comment by bigiain
15 years ago
I wonder how much its just Mark poking Larry with a stick.
"So you bought Java, eh? Who cares? I don't need to rely on Java, I've got all the cool kids and their RoR apps!"
(212M is an expensive stick though...)
15 years ago
I wonder how much its just Mark poking Larry with a stick.
"So you bought Java, eh? Who cares? I don't need to rely on Java, I've got all the cool kids and their RoR apps!"
(212M is an expensive stick though...)
RoR for dynamic HTML apps used to be the coolest thing but now the really new/cool stuff is written as a JSON server talking to AJAX and mobile clients. In this world node.js, clojure and erlang (maybe) are cooler than RoR.
I think Heroku is not so much about Rails than about Ruby. You can use any rack-based app here, as well as host long-running job workers.
In the non-startup enterprises (I work with those), the work is usually to glue things together. Call a legacy web-service here, run a worker there, put things back into a legacy CRM etc. Ruby is perfect for that.
JRuby is even better, actually, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Heroku support it later on.
Heroku is also planning on rolling out node.js support which will help round them out even further.
Entertaining, as a lot of Heroku's infrastructure is built on Erlang.
It's funny but just as backend platforms really started to get good all the action shifted back to the client.