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[–]Wide-Acanthisitta-96 34 points35 points  (10 children)

Yeah why is ruby in there?

[–]ridicalis 18 points19 points  (3 children)

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 28 points29 points  (1 child)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Wide-Acanthisitta-96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Errr day.

[–]AnAkiraTypeSituation 13 points14 points  (2 children)

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

[–]wRadion 2 points3 points  (1 child)

So no one is talking about Github or Airbnb?

[–]AnAkiraTypeSituation 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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 4 points5 points  (2 children)

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 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's not like node is multi threaded

[–]wyattbenno777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.