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The HN bubble in full effect, where people are leaving Rails en masse to use Nim to build web apps.
by petepete 3y ago
The HN bubble in full effect, where people are leaving Rails en masse to use Nim to build web apps.
- satvikpendem 3y agoThey never implied "en masse." But yes, for what it's worth, those that would use Rails 10 years ago are now increasingly using JS based frameworks, such as NodeJS with express and/or Next.js. In fact, many people who are in web dev these days only know JS/TypeScript, they know zero Ruby at all.
- pmontra 3y agoOr maybe: those people that were using Rails 10 years ago are still using Rails now and those people that entered the job market in the last 10 years are using JS frameworks. That would match more closely what I see.
- satvikpendem 3y agoExactly, that's what I meant, I should've worded it better. I see no reason for most companies who are successful to move off of Rails, but then again, many big ones have over the years [0], including Twitch, Airbnb, Hulu, Coinbase, SoundCloud, and even Twitter. [0] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1701299614148919301/quotes https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1701299614148919301/quotes
- lbotos 3y agoproof? (I like nim -- but I don't see a mass migration)
- petepete 3y agoThe point I'm making is that people leaving for nim is a HN thing to say that's unrepresentative of what's actually happening in the rest of the world.