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fad - an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze. --- I do
by _fdsfs12123 3y ago
fad - an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze.
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I don't think Ruby is a fad. The drop off Ruby had since early 2010s is dramatic, but it stabilized around 5% of all PRs on GH in the last few years:
https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/2 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/2
It's still one of the most popular languages for web development.
- cutler 3y ago> It's still one of the most popular languages for web development. But is it? Stats on major job boards such as Indeed show a steep decline in recent years. There are consistently twice as many Django/Flask roles listed compared with Rails. Node is the most popular but Spring, ASP.Net and PHP occupy the next level below Node.
- MatthiasPortzel 3y agoThanks for linking that graph. I wonder to what extent Ruby’s decline as a percentage is due to its use declining versus other languages growing.