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Node.js to pass Ruby on Rails in search popularity
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Re: Node.js to pass Ruby on Rails in search popularity
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Re: Node.js to pass Ruby on Rails in search popularity
#33Does anybody other that clueless managers actually make tech decisions based on search popularity? I can see some limited value in choosing one project over another because of popularity in general, but as long as there are more than 10 projects using it, popularity is irrelevant compared to other criteria, like the actual quality of a tool.
Seriously, this popularity contest between node and rails is getting annoying, open source is not high-school, quit obsessing over useless numbers and write awesome code.
It's 2012, you can get away with using whatever you like, even Haskell or Lisp, choose whatever works best for you. On the internet nobody(relevant) cares if you're a dog(to paraphrase the popular quote).
Re: Node.js to pass Ruby on Rails in search popularity
#34'Ruby on Rails'? Who has time to type three words into the search box? Compare 'rails' with 'node.js' and you see a different picture: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=rails,+node.js&ctab=0... 'node.js' has less than 15% the search volume of 'rails'.
The only problem with that comparison is the first six example results have nothing to do with "Ruby on Rails".
Re: Node.js to pass Ruby on Rails in search popularity
#35Better headline: node.js surpasses turnips in search popularity: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=turnip,+node.js&ctab=0&#...
The scale is off on that comparison too, actually.
turnip 1.00, node.js 0.18
Not only is Node less popular than Rails, it's not even as popular as turnips.
Re: Node.js to pass Ruby on Rails in search popularity
#36Totally not true. Look at the scale. ROR is on scale of 1 and Node.js scale is 0.08. Node.js is searched 0.08 times ROR indicating ROR is 12 times more popular still.
No, the 1.0 vs. .08 is for the entire eight year period depicted, during most of which Node.js didn't even exist. What's relevant is the trend and how they compare right now -- RoR is going down, Node is going up, and Node is right now nearly as high as RoR. If you change it to show only the last 30 days, RoR is 1.0 and Node is .87 (i.e., RoR is getting only 15% more searches, not 12 times the searches).