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Rails burned out in under 10 years. The reason I say React will be gone in another 5 years is because it's already been popular for 5 and the muttering has star

Rails burned out in under 10 years. The reason I say React will be gone in another 5 years is because it's already been popular for 5 and the muttering has started. Do you remember Adobe Flex? React is following a shockingly similar path and timeline.

srgpqt 7y ago
Still writing Rails today, nothing seems to come close, except maybe Phoenix sortof
tomnipotent 7y ago
> Rails burned out in under 10 years It may not be the glory days, but Rail's is still going strong 13 years later. React, however, has reached a popularity many times larger than RoR ever did. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r... There has never been a project (I can think of), other than the Linux kernel, with the resources that companies and developers have put behind React. > Do you remember Adobe Flex Flex never came close to either RoR or React popularity, and was propelled mostly by the dying wave of ActionScript programmers from the aughts after cell phones killed the Flash game market.
- ScottFree 7y ago
  So is Flex[0]. What's your point? It's not popular anymore and hundreds if not thousands of code bases are being converted from both of these technologies into something else. [0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React,adobe%20flex https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
  - tomnipotent 7y ago
    > What's your point? Seriously? Adobe Flex was a closed-source and proprietary commercial offering capitalizing on the prior decade's popularity of Flash. React is open source with a vast and robust ecosystem of even more open source to go along with it. It couldn't be more night & day.
    - ScottFree 7y ago
      > Adobe Flex was a closed-source and proprietary That confirms it: you aren't old enough to remember Flex. It was open source.
      - tomnipotent 7y ago
        Not until version 3 in 2008, after which it became Apache Flex. Maybe you should try to get both your facts and attitude straight.
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        dang 7y ago
        Please don't get involved in flamewars on HN. Personal attacks in particular will get you banned here, so please don't do those. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - dang 7y ago
        Please don't get involved in flamewars on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        ScottFree 7y ago
        Sorry. That was not my intent.
- csande17 7y ago
  > React, however, has reached a popularity many times larger than RoR ever did. > https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r... I'm not sure this chart is very good evidence of this claim. There are so many other things named "react" -- Nike React shoes, Kids React videos, reactionary politics, and so on -- that it's a bit like claiming Trump.js is the most popular JavaScript library in the world because of this chart: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React,Trump https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

srgpqt 7y ago

Still writing Rails today, nothing seems to come close, except maybe Phoenix sortof

tomnipotent 7y ago

> Rails burned out in under 10 years It may not be the glory days, but Rail's is still going strong 13 years later. React, however, has reached a popularity many times larger than RoR ever did. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r... There has never been a project (I can think of), other than the Linux kernel, with the resources that companies and developers have put behind React. > Do you remember Adobe Flex Flex never came close to either RoR or React popularity, and was propelled mostly by the dying wave of ActionScript programmers from the aughts after cell phones killed the Flash game market.

ScottFree 7y ago
So is Flex[0]. What's your point? It's not popular anymore and hundreds if not thousands of code bases are being converted from both of these technologies into something else. [0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React,adobe%20flex https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
- tomnipotent 7y ago
  > What's your point? Seriously? Adobe Flex was a closed-source and proprietary commercial offering capitalizing on the prior decade's popularity of Flash. React is open source with a vast and robust ecosystem of even more open source to go along with it. It couldn't be more night & day.
  - ScottFree 7y ago
    > Adobe Flex was a closed-source and proprietary That confirms it: you aren't old enough to remember Flex. It was open source.
    - tomnipotent 7y ago
      Not until version 3 in 2008, after which it became Apache Flex. Maybe you should try to get both your facts and attitude straight.
      - deleted 7y ago
        [deleted]
      - dang 7y ago
        Please don't get involved in flamewars on HN. Personal attacks in particular will get you banned here, so please don't do those. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - dang 7y ago
      Please don't get involved in flamewars on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - ScottFree 7y ago
        Sorry. That was not my intent.
csande17 7y ago
> React, however, has reached a popularity many times larger than RoR ever did. > https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r... I'm not sure this chart is very good evidence of this claim. There are so many other things named "react" -- Nike React shoes, Kids React videos, reactionary politics, and so on -- that it's a bit like claiming Trump.js is the most popular JavaScript library in the world because of this chart: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React,Trump https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...