Rather tangential, however Ruby seems to exist entirely on the backs of Shopify now [1], and every Ruby-related post on here goes back to a Shopify employee. Did the founder of Shopify start with Ruby so now they’re wed to it culturally? Each of these Ruby posts has a gross mismatch between engagement and score. I apologize for the digression, but Shopify today reminds me of some Delphi/object pascal shops I’d engage…
Just a reminder of how much of YC's portfolio value is based on firms that chose Ruby: https://charliereese.ca/article/top-50-y-combinator-tech-sta... https://twitter.com/logicmason/status/1371255029412233218
No one should cargo cult off of that. Ultimately the product is magnitudes more important than the technology (at least in most cases).