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Ruby remains in relatively high demand, despite a decade of once a month blog posts claiming "Ruby is dead"

by Trasmatta 4y ago

SkyPuncher 4y ago
I know Ruby is going out of fashion, but Rails remains an incredibly productive platform that can scale a good bit.
- Trasmatta 4y ago
  Everytime I try out a new framework, I end up just switching back to Rails because "wow, I could do this all so much quicker in Rails...". Part of that is just a decade of familiarity, and part of that is the maturity of the framework.
  - SkyPuncher 4y ago
    The only thing that I've found to be more productive are the integrated GraphQL platforms (Hasura, Postgraphile, etc). However, these seem like they struggle to scale with team size.
moreira 4y ago
The key thing to remember in any "x is dead" meme is that all it means is "this isn't the new and shiny anymore". Ruby is as good as it ever was, it's just not shiny anymore. And god, I remember the shiny. I remember when Ruby on Rails came in the scene, and the whole fuss about Basecamp and how influential 37Signals seemed to be back then. Time flies.
xaitv 4y ago
Based on what I see around me Ruby is used by a couple of big companies, while something like PHP(another language that people generally consider as "dying", probably way more so than Ruby is) is used by a lot small companies. Would be interesting to see OP's data, but instead of amount of jobs it's amount of unique companies that offer these jobs to see if I'm correct in that assumption.
- Trasmatta 4y ago
  This anecdotal, but I see a lot of small companies and startups still picking Rails.
jonnycat 4y ago
Nobody bothers to write about the languages and technologies that are actually dead.
- ydnaclementine 4y ago
  haha, I think this is a good point where headlines are opposite of reality: "Ruby is dead", "Cobol is alive", etc
  - ravenstine 4y ago
    COBOL is still being used though. Not sure if that's what you meant. What I want to know is if any variation of Algol is used in any production context today.
- dariusj18 4y ago
  As someone who has worked with dying languages, that is wrong. There are always blog posts about dying languages too.
swat535 4y ago
Rails 7 and Ruby 3 are excellent. They both got major companies (Etsy, Shopify, Github, Gitlab, Airbnb,..) backing them and are not going away at this point. Great choice if you are looking to get work done with a mature ecosystem and settle down..
- TenJack 4y ago
  You could also add Amazon (for internal tools) to that list.

Ruby remains in relatively high demand, despite a decade of once a month blog posts claiming "Ruby is dead"

SkyPuncher 4y ago

I know Ruby is going out of fashion, but Rails remains an incredibly productive platform that can scale a good bit.

Trasmatta 4y ago
Everytime I try out a new framework, I end up just switching back to Rails because "wow, I could do this all so much quicker in Rails...". Part of that is just a decade of familiarity, and part of that is the maturity of the framework.
- SkyPuncher 4y ago
  The only thing that I've found to be more productive are the integrated GraphQL platforms (Hasura, Postgraphile, etc). However, these seem like they struggle to scale with team size.

moreira 4y ago

The key thing to remember in any "x is dead" meme is that all it means is "this isn't the new and shiny anymore". Ruby is as good as it ever was, it's just not shiny anymore. And god, I remember the shiny. I remember when Ruby on Rails came in the scene, and the whole fuss about Basecamp and how influential 37Signals seemed to be back then. Time flies.

xaitv 4y ago

Based on what I see around me Ruby is used by a couple of big companies, while something like PHP(another language that people generally consider as "dying", probably way more so than Ruby is) is used by a lot small companies. Would be interesting to see OP's data, but instead of amount of jobs it's amount of unique companies that offer these jobs to see if I'm correct in that assumption.

Trasmatta 4y ago
This anecdotal, but I see a lot of small companies and startups still picking Rails.

jonnycat 4y ago

Nobody bothers to write about the languages and technologies that are actually dead.

ydnaclementine 4y ago
haha, I think this is a good point where headlines are opposite of reality: "Ruby is dead", "Cobol is alive", etc
- ravenstine 4y ago
  COBOL is still being used though. Not sure if that's what you meant. What I want to know is if any variation of Algol is used in any production context today.
dariusj18 4y ago
As someone who has worked with dying languages, that is wrong. There are always blog posts about dying languages too.

swat535 4y ago

Rails 7 and Ruby 3 are excellent. They both got major companies (Etsy, Shopify, Github, Gitlab, Airbnb,..) backing them and are not going away at this point. Great choice if you are looking to get work done with a mature ecosystem and settle down..

TenJack 4y ago
You could also add Amazon (for internal tools) to that list.