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> My (outsider's) perception is that Ruby came and went, That's like saying PHP came and went. Just because something is no longer the new hotness and doesn't
by goatlover 5y ago
> My (outsider's) perception is that Ruby came and went,
That's like saying PHP came and went. Just because something is no longer the new hotness and doesn't get discussed a lot on HN doesn't mean nobody uses it. Both Ruby and Rails continue to be updated just like PHP and it's popular frameworks. If you compared the number of websites developed by either compared to Erlang, it's not even close. Elixir & Phoenix would be a better comparison, but Ruby is still top 20 in the Tiobe Index (PHP is top 10), and Elixir is somewhere hovering around the top 50.
- yakubin 5y agoI don't see PHP this way. PHP was never the new hotness. It was never cool. Whereas Ruby definitely surfed the fad wave, and this wave is gone now. Similarly, Erlang was not a cool kid, it just was somewhere in the background at telecoms, and slowly started being used in other places. If I had to bet, I'd expect Ruby to be completely gone in 50 years, while Erlang will still be there.
- joelbluminator 5y ago> PHP was never the new hotness. It was never cool It was kinda the de facto way to make websites at some point, together with Perl. it was definitely cool.