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Re:What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our ... by john_flintstone on Thursday March 08, 2012 @12:37PM (#3680688)
>They created ruby on rails, which a few people use

A few people? Really? Now that's just petty.

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Re:What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our ... by blasterford on Thursday March 08, 2012 @12:38PM (#3680699)
Compared to java, javascript, c, php etc?
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Re:What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our ... by stephenhuey on Thursday March 08, 2012 @03:09PM (#3681342)
Jumping from "a few" to comparing against C and Java is quite a leap. The simple fact is that Heroku alone had over 60,000 apps 2 years ago, and based on other statistics I think it's safe to say that Rails is a tool used by millions of programmers.

http://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Ruby-on-Rails

You're entitled to not like 37 Signals or think they give poor advice, but you shouldn't downplay their contribution so much.

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