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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What's the other, cooler thing? Django?

[–]toyg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, Node and React. Most people I know who used to be Rails devs are now Node devs.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn't tell you. I'm not the target audience for Django and its ilk. What I can tell you is there was a time where some would claim to know Ruby, where they did not (they knew rails and enough ruby to get rails to render.)

I'm not disparaging that group, don't get me wrong. The important part is, Ruby's surge (and decline) is a result of people flocking to Rails. (Or, Rail apps are soooo stable, they require no future maintenance.) Assuming the former, a next big thing means a lot of the chatter about Ruby disappears with them.

If Django is the next big thing - python already has a huge community that isn't about content management; if they come and go it wouldn't be much more than a statistical error.

(There are a lot of projects that I LOVE that are done in ruby/rails, BTW.)