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Rails didn’t really pick up until 2005 either, by which point Perl had already faded considerably. The most interesting counterfactual is “What if someone had
by alexhutcheson 6y ago
Rails didn’t really pick up until 2005 either, by which point Perl had already faded considerably.
The most interesting counterfactual is “What if someone had written something like Rails for Perl before 2005?” It was definitely technically possible, and it might have made Perl take back off (Ruby usage grew from basically nothing due to Rails), but the community’s focus on Perl 6 at the time made it much less likely.
- cutler 6y agoPerl had Mojolicious which was almost as good as Rails and a lumbering beast called Catalyst which was used at the BBC.
- alexhutcheson 6y agoMojolicious wasn’t released until 2008, by which point Rails and Django had both been available for >3 years. Catalyst was released in 2005 (so still after Rails), and definitely didn’t provide Rails-like productivity. If Mojolicious had been available in ~2003 or earlier, it’s entirely possible Ruby never takes off, because developers could get similar productivity in a more “known”/“mainstream” language.