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I wouldn't choose RoR as a new tech to pick up in 2022. Think of it like a more stylish PHP - lots of it out there, but mostly not in companies working on thin
by CuriouslyC 5y ago
I wouldn't choose RoR as a new tech to pick up in 2022. Think of it like a more stylish PHP - lots of it out there, but mostly not in companies working on things that are compelling, and the market share is on the decline.
- gherkinnn 5y agoGithub, Airbnb, Stripe, and Gitlab all use Ruby (on Rails) to a significant extend. Compelling things, if you ask me. Stripe is even developing Sorbet [0], a Ruby type checker. Not that those are reason enough to use it. But I wouldn't call it the wrong decision either. 0 - https://sorbet.org/ https://sorbet.org/
- reducesuffering 5y agoThey all started the projects from 2009-2013 picking Rails, the most popular web framework at the time: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=ruby-on-rails%2Cdjango%2Cnode.js%2Cgo https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=ruby-on-rails... If you were to follow in their footsteps, you'd also be picking the top popularity web framework for your time, which as of now is things like Next.js and Django. Big recent-era startups: OpenSea (Django / Next.js) Notion (Node.js) ScaleAI (Python, Node.js, Next.js) Substack (Node.js) Rippling (Django / Next.js)
- ryanbrunner 5y agoShopify is another notable one.