Friday, March 20, 2026

Ruby devs who use React end up with too much competition from the React community

I have observed that Ruby devs who use React often have a hard time finding a job because too many people know React. Well, that's one more reason to learn Glimmer DSL for Web! Not only will you do the work of React devs in half the time or sometimes at 10x productivity in Ruby, but also you will have a unique competitive advantage not many devs have and become indispensable as a result, unlike those disposable React devs that get laid off all the time with the lame excuse that layoffs are a "fact of life". That's not true because layoffs are a sign of not having delivered enough useful value to customers to sustain one's job.

For example, when my company laid off a React dev during an investment freeze by investors 2 years ago, they kept me even though I was the guy against React (because it contradicts the Ruby way and Rails way, lowering productivity/maintainability significantly) and the other guy was for React. I was delivering value to customers that made me indispensable and that guy was slowly delivering the same old boring incompetence in React that everyone else in the market provided with zero competitive advantage.

And, then I eventually helped migrate our Rails Fintech web app to Glimmer DSL for Web, an award winning Ruby open-source Frontend Development framework. That's a success story for the effectiveness of using innovative Ruby technologies like Glimmer DSL for Web that not many other devs use yet. We are literally able to rewrite React components as Glimmer components in less time than would take us to reuse React components with complicated React code that demands using business-distant-concepts like Hooks and Effects. Smart Ruby devs would join this new highly innovative Ruby technology community and help contribute to it and grow it!!! And, as a side-effect, they'll become indispensable and separate themselves from everyone else in the job market.

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