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Re:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 by paulddraper on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:05PM (#18094980)
I agree with everything you said, but know that upgrading platforms is not a pain unique to Rails.

How long was AWS Lambda not able to support Python 3?

How long was GCP not able to support Java 7?

How hard is it to upgrade any core framework or language?

Re:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 by uranusjr on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:18PM (#18095082)
I feel this is comparing apples to oranges. Computing platforms supporting a new runtime is less about porting existing code, but more like adding a new feature to the code base. You really don’t see much “we port our app from framework/language version X to Y” articles anywhere, except for maybe Python 2/3. But that only generally happen for one version bump for a long time. Ruby (and particularly Rails) is really not doing as well as some of other players in this area.
Re:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 by paulddraper on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:51PM (#18096487)
Django is a great product. But migrate a large project between versions multiple years apart, and you'll feel it.