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Google Trends is not the place to be looking. Programming Language adoption is best gauged by the number of jobs which require skill in the language. Ruby and R

by cutler 5y ago

Google Trends is not the place to be looking. Programming Language adoption is best gauged by the number of jobs which require skill in the language. Ruby and Rails adoption according to Indeed.com/co.uk has been steady for many years, though not at the levels seen when at its peak. Rails is particularly popular in the U.S. and it is more accurate to describe it as boring tech rather than dying. There are currently 260 Rails jobs in London according to Indeed.co.uk and 1124 Ruby jobs which is still over 1000 if you knock-off 10% for non-tech Ruby results.

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berkes 5y ago
> Google Trends is not the place to be looking. It isn't. Author here. That is why I wrote the post and included many more sources, stackoverflow insights, Tiobe, rubygems.org, github etc. I'm sorry If I did not put this forward more clearly. The initial graph was mostly a hook, and not so much proof, as I mentioned in the first paragraph. I presume you did not read the article, but if you did, could you help me write better articles next time, by showing me how I could put this point more forward? I did include it in the first paragraph, but maybe that gets overlooked?
- cutler 5y ago
  Yes, I read the whole article but as you were going for Google Trends as your opener I thought I'd counter with job stats which you didn't really dwell on much in the rest of the article. Point taken, however, that a lot of Rails jobs are probably legacy code. I think the major factor in the relative decline of Ruby and Rails is that microservices are better served by languages with first-class support for async or concurrency.