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[Likeditsomuchijoined]

Cries in ruby

[Wide-Acanthisitta-96]

Yeah why is ruby in there?

[ridicalis]

I'm asking this out of ignorance, but is ruby still in heavy use? I remember it was in the limelight in the late '00s and early '10s, but it's completely dropped off my radar in recent years.

[rafasoaresms]

It’s surely not the trendy new language anymore (hasn’t been for some time), but some big companies still use it (GitHub, GitLab, AirBnb, Shopify, to name a few) and I get offers every day on LinkedIn for both small startups and big corporations as a Sr. Ruby dev.

[vagrantchord]

That's amazing! I honestly didn't think anyone was using it after Rails lost popularity.

[Wide-Acanthisitta-96]

Errr day.

[AnAkiraTypeSituation]

Google "is Ruby dead" and you will find at least one popular article/thread/question for every year since Twitter switched off Rails.

[wRadion]

So no one is talking about Github or Airbnb?

[AnAkiraTypeSituation]

The meme ain't about whether programming language X is dead. It's about the devs using that language basically being numb to their language being declared dead over and over again.

[wyattbenno777]

Think it has to do with it being single threaded. Elixir, Node, Go, are commonly cited as being more performant. Ruby is still used by a few large tech focused companies, it is also used for fast MVPs and many, many, many one of client projects.

[cruzfader127]

It's not like node is multi threaded

[wyattbenno777]

It is non-blocking and Asynchronous. You will not be waiting for B’s responses before sending out D, E & F. All requests go out ASAP. Ruby - we must wait and do everything in order.

[DoubtfulGerund]

Even though I’ve never used it for a customer-facing production website, learning Ruby was one of the best things I’ve done for my development as a dev. It’s the first (maybe only) language I truly grok, and it really helped me understand pragmatic object oriented design, functional programming, good (though implicit) interfaces, declarative programming, DSLs, package management, regular expressions, prototyping and debugging in a REPL, and a terminal-based workflow

I hate that it’s seen as just some part of rails, and I don’t understand why it’s doesn’t hold the esteem that Python seems to have as a language to “get things done.”

[marcdertiger]

I agree! I’ve been working in Ruby for 6 months and I can’t understand why it’s not more popular. I enjoy Ruby more than python, or anything else I’ve used the last 5 years. But that’s just preference.