Yes because it is still a hyper-effective and flexible way to build and iterate many products. And it's not just rails. The library breadth and quality of ruby libraries IME is off the hook great. Some kind of magic has happened.
Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
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#12This was also asked 9 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5483752
Interesting to compare answers to today.
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#13Shopify is hiring like crazy, and their stack is almost all Rails.
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#14Not if you want to make building websites complex so that you can charge your client more.
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#15Yes. It’s not the super cool framework it once was but it’s still excellent, and still in active development. Rails 7 is a fantastic release too.
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#16I think it depends on the region. I started a project in Rails, and when I tried to hire people to help I found out there are very few people in my city who know anything about Rails. It's all Python and Java here.
So I'd recommend to look for job ads on local platforms and check if companies are looking for rails devs.
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#17It's not only not dead, I'm excited about the new stuff in Rails 7.
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#18Define dead. Some people don't think Cobol is deal. Or Fortran. In this sense the code is still run somewhere and there are still jobs to be had.
But the question is probably around one's personal choices: is this the framework to invest my energy and time? Are there far better frameworks? Where is the market headed?
In the early days of Rails, and indeed any popular framework, the sense we get of an explosive growth. As a result of this there is an imbalance of jobs and developers and jobs seem easy, plentiful and well compensated.
This is really a question of the ratio of dev:positions. Most answers to this tend to focus on the positions component (take a look at stack, or upwork or indeed or whatever!). Perhaps someone on HN will suggest a metric or public gauge for the competition as well.
Edit: added slightly more context
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#19Yes. According to Hired's State of Software engineers 2022, Rails is the 2nd most in demand skill. https://hired.com/2022-state-of-software-engineers/
That post seems extremely suspect. I'm guessing that what they mean when they say "the most in demand skills" is the skills that when present on a resume, increase the odds of a user being contacted by recruiters, which isn't so much in demand as hard to find. By that metric COBOL would probably have been at the top of the list if hired had clients that used it.
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#20I think it depends on the region. I started a project in Rails, and when I tried to hire people to help I found out there are very few people in my city who know anything about Rails. It's all Python and Java here. So I'd recommend to look for job ads on local platforms and check if companies are looking for rails devs.
Definitely a valid concern!
Though I would not let that dictate my choice of tools.
However if you want the biggest pool of "talent" and potentially the cheapest "talent" then going with the most popular is probably a good idea
Doesn't mean I'd advocate for the most obscure tech either, but it's all about trade-offs and your situation.