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A couple of years ago every new Go project was being reported here; before that every new Elixir project was being reported; I don’t know if HN was around in th

A couple of years ago every new Go project was being reported here; before that every new Elixir project was being reported; I don’t know if HN was around in the mid-2000’s but I’m pretty sure if it was, it would be full of every new Ruby on Rails project… these phases have been coming and going for as many years as I’ve been signed up here at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Macha 5y ago
HN was around in the late 2000s, which was enough to catch the latter part of the Rails craze, and yes there were a number of posts regularly on X in Rails/RailsClone, Rails vs Sinatra, Rails vs Merb, etc etc
habibur 5y ago
Before that -- every Java. and before that, every PHP. What was before PHP? Perl?
- Macha 5y ago
  I'd put Java's initial trendy period as before PHP's, Java was more concurrent with Perl for that kind of interest. PHP had a fair amount of reacting to the verbosity and tedium of early Java/C++9x static typing in the community
ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Yep, and everyone still uses all the stoftware written in C/++, and the stuff written in ruby/(and soon go/rust/...) doesn't even run anymore.
- wongarsu 5y ago
  Plenty of people still use Ruby, there's a ruby project on the HN front page right now [1]. It just isn't mentioned anymore. The world pretty much runs on C, Java and C# but you won't hear about either, because what's normal isn't exciting. HN isn't a reflection of normalcy, it's a reflection of the unusual and the cutting edge. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634831
- mywittyname 5y ago
  Getting old, forgotten C/C++ code running can be a job. It's really a matter of how well written the make files were and if one still has the original tool chain sitting around. C/++ code written for a paid, closed-source compiler can require a lot of changes to get running under something like GCC. Not sure how Ruby's backwards compatibility is, since I don't use it, but I have to imagine it's like most other scripting languages in that getting the correct major version is all you need.
  - ajsnigrutin 5y ago
    I'm not talking about old, forgotten code. I'm saying that, every time, there is a "${old-existing-thing} in ${current-language-of-the-day}", people upvote it, start it on github, and continue using the old one, written in c/c++. A few months will go buy, and people will continue using mgba/visualboy/vbam or whatever was popular before.

Macha 5y ago

HN was around in the late 2000s, which was enough to catch the latter part of the Rails craze, and yes there were a number of posts regularly on X in Rails/RailsClone, Rails vs Sinatra, Rails vs Merb, etc etc

habibur 5y ago

Before that -- every Java. and before that, every PHP. What was before PHP? Perl?

Macha 5y ago
I'd put Java's initial trendy period as before PHP's, Java was more concurrent with Perl for that kind of interest. PHP had a fair amount of reacting to the verbosity and tedium of early Java/C++9x static typing in the community

ajsnigrutin 5y ago

Yep, and everyone still uses all the stoftware written in C/++, and the stuff written in ruby/(and soon go/rust/...) doesn't even run anymore.

wongarsu 5y ago
Plenty of people still use Ruby, there's a ruby project on the HN front page right now [1]. It just isn't mentioned anymore. The world pretty much runs on C, Java and C# but you won't hear about either, because what's normal isn't exciting. HN isn't a reflection of normalcy, it's a reflection of the unusual and the cutting edge. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634831
mywittyname 5y ago
Getting old, forgotten C/C++ code running can be a job. It's really a matter of how well written the make files were and if one still has the original tool chain sitting around. C/++ code written for a paid, closed-source compiler can require a lot of changes to get running under something like GCC. Not sure how Ruby's backwards compatibility is, since I don't use it, but I have to imagine it's like most other scripting languages in that getting the correct major version is all you need.
- ajsnigrutin 5y ago
  I'm not talking about old, forgotten code. I'm saying that, every time, there is a "${old-existing-thing} in ${current-language-of-the-day}", people upvote it, start it on github, and continue using the old one, written in c/c++. A few months will go buy, and people will continue using mgba/visualboy/vbam or whatever was popular before.