Comment by dyeje

4 years ago

Is Shopify shifting away from Rails?

We use a lot of React at Shopify on top of Rails, along with Go and Rust for critical performance systems on the backend.

  • Makes sense. Ruby dev over at Meta who uses Vue, TS, Rust WASM, and Rust backend at home. No Go (anymore) or Rails, but I love Rails, DRY-rb, trailblazer, haml for their expressiveness and software engineering.

Probably not, but going where the market is in terms of business. Majority of their headless support is for react so investing in the stack allows them to expand and dictate that future. (Ancedata: did headless Shopify with ember and was aggravated in how piss poor their js support was in relation to React until their dev team told the data).