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I hate to be this guy, but Ruby on Rails is not a language, and Ruby the language was first release in 1995.
by eloisant 7y ago
I hate to be this guy, but Ruby on Rails is not a language, and Ruby the language was first release in 1995.
- icedchai 7y agoAlmost nobody was using Ruby in 1995. Perl, however, was everywhere.
- pkd 7y agoAlmost nobody was using Python in 1989 either. Clearly it's a mistake on the part of the writer and not some deliberate attempt at judging when a language became popular.
- user5994461 7y agoAuthor here. I put Rails instead of Ruby deliberately. I'm not sure if Ruby is significant enough to stand on its own, guessed not.
- icedchai 7y agoRuby was barely a blip on the map until Rails showed up.
- pkd 7y agoThanks for clarifying. But that seems a bit unfair and arbitrary. Rails definitely boosted its popularity but Ruby itself is quite potent without it. Stripe has its systems written in Ruby without using Rails, for example. If we apply the same standards for Python, shouldn't we track its popularity by when NumPy(Numeric) came into being? (1995) This is supremely pedantic though, and I don't really care about arguing it here, so :shrugs:
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- gist 7y agoI don't think that makes you 'this guy' at all I completely missed that and it's a valid thing to point out.