Productivity
Posted by Ben Rometsch on 14 May 2006
An old friend and coder supremo got in touch recently. He's working for a company that has just ported its major application to Rails. Here's a good quote from someone with a lot of C/C++ and PHP experience discussing the changes he has felt...Rails..... let me see - its hard to explain, but after years of writing C++ I never fully appreciated how much time was spent writing framework / support / utility code and how little time was spent actually writing the application itself. With Ruby on Rails I've been here three months now and quite literally every line of code I've written has been to improve / add to the website that the user sees.
Does that make sense? I don't spend days fixing back end code - it's like there's a whole level of crud that's been taken away, leaving you writing your application, not back-end code.