A bit of context first: I was a PHP developer up to 2014, when I moved into management roles. Since then, I did a bit of Node (I personally don’t like it) but nothing else. Back in my PHP days Rails was all the hype (I guess that’s gone now?) and I wanted to learn it, but never got the time.
I am now at a crossroads, I’m fed up with management and want to transition back to development over the next 2 years. I can devote 1-2 hrs/day to learning something new. End goal is to work on small to mid sized projects in the SaaS space.
Now, every time I look at Ruby, it feels daunting because the language is quite big. Rails is even bigger. What bums me down really is that there are folks who have been doing Rails for 10+ years and I’m only starting, so job opportunities don’t look promising. Also, Rails evolved so much, a lot of tutorials are out of date, as are gems, plugins etc.
So, given all of this, what would be your take, or alternative to learn? (With the hopes of working with that tech full time in 2022)
I am now at a crossroads, I’m fed up with management and want to transition back to development over the next 2 years. I can devote 1-2 hrs/day to learning something new. End goal is to work on small to mid sized projects in the SaaS space.
Now, every time I look at Ruby, it feels daunting because the language is quite big. Rails is even bigger. What bums me down really is that there are folks who have been doing Rails for 10+ years and I’m only starting, so job opportunities don’t look promising. Also, Rails evolved so much, a lot of tutorials are out of date, as are gems, plugins etc.
So, given all of this, what would be your take, or alternative to learn? (With the hopes of working with that tech full time in 2022)