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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by FanaHOVA on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:50AM (#14848668)
> For a while you'd think Ruby was going to over take PHP for web dev but it eventually converge to a steady state the growth rate isn't increasing at all.

Rails downloads almost doubled from 2015 to 2016 (15M -> 24M). Not sure where you see that the "growth rate isn't increasing at all".

Source: RubyGems db data dump (more stats here: https://infinum.co/the-capsized-eight/analyzing-rubygems-sta...)

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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by alexcastano on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:40PM (#14849221)
I've always thought that this is a consequence of tools like Docker, where each new image installs the gems from the beginning; but I could not prove my theory.
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