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Comment by stuart_real

1 year ago

As per GitHub's popularity chart, Ruby was the #5 language in 2014, and #10 in 2022 - https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

Starting a new commercial project/company in 2024 in Ruby is questionable.

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hakunin  1 year ago

Correction: you mean 2014, not 2024.

Do you think there is no criteria worth considering besides the size of the hiring pool? What if 2 hiring pools are sufficiently big, do you still pick the bigger one every time?

  • stuart_real  1 year ago

    Thanks. Corrected.

    > Do you think there is no criteria worth considering besides the size of the hiring pool? What if 2 hiring pool are sufficiently big, do you still pick the bigger one every time?

    It is not just a hiring pool. Look at various third-party SASS tools, they see Ruby as a second-grade language to support.

    • hakunin  1 year ago

      That's not at all my experience. There's a one-line integration between almost everything under the sun and Rails (business/traffic analytics, performance/profilers, error notifications, logging, object storage integration, I could probably go on). Many other frameworks don't even have the general capability of doing one-line integrations.

pjm331  1 year ago

one could also argue that making tech decisions based on popularity charts is questionable

  • stuart_real  1 year ago

    One could argue that making tech decisions while completely ignoring popularity charts is more questionable.

    • Mystery-Machine  1 year ago

      You're right. Those shouldn't be completely ignored. They probably shouldn't be the only argument to make tech decisions upon. Did you ever build any webapp in Ruby on Rails? You should check it out!

pdntspa  1 year ago

Rising from #10 to #5 seems to imply that a lot of people are making 'questionable' decisions. As an active senior RoR dev since like 2014ish seeing that makes my heart atwitter :)