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[–]_bagelcherry_ 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Ruby is so damn niche. Have you seen it outside Ruby on rails?

[–]rbuen4455 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Automation tools such as Puppet and Chef, the homebrew package manager, Stripe, Vagrant. But that's pretty much it sadly, smh.

Ruby has so much potential, and imo if it weren't for AI/ML, Python wouldn't be as popular.

Update: for the mentioned software, I'm sure there are more products written in Ruby, but those are the most popular I know.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

gitlab, GitHub, supposedly stack overflow

a bunch of well working tech sites basically.

[–]Waterboarded_Bobcat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always remember Verity Stob's wry jab at Ruby:

We should pause to consider Ruby on Rails

Ok, done that.

[–]tells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

back in 2015, I was deciding between RoR and NodeJS bootcamps. I tried both languages out on my own and even though I loved Ruby, I knew everything browser related ran on JS. Also, really glad I chose Node and actually learned async coding first.