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Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
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Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#32Still relevant. We're deploying a lot of customer apps that are written on Rails
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#33Yes. 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.
Do you have any evidence at all to support this or is it just a guess?
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#34Ruby has been on the downswing for a while, getting squeezed from all sides from the meteoric rise of Python on one side, JS/Typescript on the other, to higher performing static languages on another:
https://octoverse.github.com/#top-languages-over-the-years
It also has a funky syntax, while not a big deal, doesn't do it any favors in a C --> Javascript world. Django, golang, etc. are free. I don't recommend starting new projects in ruby, but as always YMMV.
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#35Yes. 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.
The fact that there's entries for Ruby and Ruby on Rails also makes me think this, perhaps this data was just parsed.
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#36My company uses it still, there were some new projects recently started using it. It does the job of creating CRUD apps pretty well.
For more performance intensive tasks .NET Core is used.
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#37Its very not dead (www.israilsdead.com). Jokes aside, it's the just perception created by everyone trying to be fancy and move to whatever is in fashion now..
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#38I think it's quite popular, also speaking of testing it really has all options available. Since unit testing is now absolutely the standard, adoption of TDD has also been growing from what I've seen
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#39I think Ruby on Rails was the killer app that kept Ruby relevant. This kept Ruby relevant for a while but has fallen off in a lot of developer surveys. I think enough competitors in major programming languages have emerged to the point where I would consider it dying.
I share that opinion. The competition is strong, the killer app is gone.
It is for dark matter developers now, SV dark matter but dark matter.
Look for the job market in your region and field and then address e it for yourself
Re: Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
#40Rails is still relevant.
It's tricky more generally to see if a technology is still relevant because there is so much hype of new stuff in web development.
Usually after the plateau of productivity, you don't see too many people talking about a given technology, your only signal of success would be something like Who's Hiring and Cmd + F "rails".