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Re:Rails 7 Released by Mikeb85 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @01:59AM (#29575770)
You're right, although doesn't really change my premise. I use Bash everyday, even though I have never tried learning it, don't really care about it, etc...

I really don't think Bash and Powershell are more popular for actual development than C++ and Go respectively. People just use them because they're there... Making the rankings a lot less meaningful.

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Re:Rails 7 Released by Hamuko on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:13AM (#29575855)
>I really don't think Bash and Powershell are more popular for actual development than C++ and Go respectively.

I'd be willing to bet money that Bash is way, way more popular in development than Go.

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Re:Rails 7 Released by regularfry on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:09AM (#29576436)
If you mean popular as in "many people are using it", probably.

If you mean popular as in "many people like using it", I would question your (and their) sanity.

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Re:Rails 7 Released by smt88 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:16AM (#29576478)
> If you mean popular as in "many people like using it", I would question your (and their) sanity.

According to Stack Overflow's survey[1], people enjoy Bash/Shell more than they enjoy Ruby.

I personally hate both Ruby and Bash, so I assume my sanity is beyond question.

1. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-loved-dr...

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Re:Rails 7 Released by Mikeb85 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:17AM (#29575879)
Again though, you have to qualify that.

> in development

This can be taken a few ways. I don't use Go, but I interact with Bash. So you're right in a sense.

I'd also never write a web-app in bash, nor a non-trivial program, nor anything that isn't a shell script. So is it really meaningful when people are looking for a language to write a GUI app, web app, mobile app or game in?

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