And then there's the evil implication of this aging, entrenched ecosystem. Companies who wrote their Java development process documentation did so in the 90's, with guidance from IBM or a "big 3," and now treat EVERY project in the business as though it was the same scale and complexity as the mainframe projects they were trying to supplement. Which is why it takes 6 months for me (on the FAST TRACK!) to even get a development environment for a simple CRUD web app designed to replace a terrible Excel spreadsheet with 5 users -- so that I can submit my feature list and test plan to review boards -- so that I can START writing my application.
No wonder it takes the IT group 2 years to write an application I can have in production in 3 months! I don't need a reverse proxy! I don't need redundancy! I don't need an encrypted file store! It's a shared, specialized to-do list application! I don't need the overhead of a global financial application running on Sun E10K's!
Nothing personal, but there are a lot of us out here who can't WAIT for people who have based their careers on "enterprise" Java to get out of the way already, and retire. When computers were as powerful as smart watches, we NEEDED all that distributed processing and faffing about with off-line data. Now? Not so much.
"Hype trains" Rust, .NET, Go, etc.? Maybe you, too, think that Rails is too "new" and "unproven" to use for anything.
No wonder it takes the IT group 2 years to write an application I can have in production in 3 months! I don't need a reverse proxy! I don't need redundancy! I don't need an encrypted file store! It's a shared, specialized to-do list application! I don't need the overhead of a global financial application running on Sun E10K's!
Nothing personal, but there are a lot of us out here who can't WAIT for people who have based their careers on "enterprise" Java to get out of the way already, and retire. When computers were as powerful as smart watches, we NEEDED all that distributed processing and faffing about with off-line data. Now? Not so much.
"Hype trains" Rust, .NET, Go, etc.? Maybe you, too, think that Rails is too "new" and "unproven" to use for anything.