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Re:Rails 7 Released by montblanc on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:58AM (#29578769)
Ok the Tiobe => Fortran is complete horse shit and we all know it. Fortan and Perl are both more popular than Go in that ranking I mean come on. But sure I agree Ruby is a nichey language, usage-wise about the same as Swift/Scala or maybe even Go. Somewhere in the top 10-15 I'd guess. If you look at web backend languages (e.g remove C/Visual Basic/C++) Ruby is probably top 10.
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Re:Rails 7 Released by smt88 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:25PM (#29584137)
Fortran is used a lot in science and engineering. My ex was an evolutionary biologist and used it, as did everyone in her department.
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Re:Rails 7 Released by montblanc on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:15AM (#29588109)
What for? I know nothing about it but why not Python? Still haven't heard of anyone using it where I live.
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Re:Rails 7 Released by stephenhuey on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:18PM (#29611266)
Here are a few answers:

https://www.quora.com/When-do-I-use-FORTRAN-over-Python-and-...

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