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Re:My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't De... by manojlds on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:05AM (#37997312)
If Shopify, GitHub or Gitlab didn't start in RoR, would they have survived such that scale became a factor?
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Re:My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't De... by pmontra on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:19AM (#37998080)
We will never know. What we know is that it didn't harm them.

Add Twitter to the list. They started with Rails, then switched to something else. Too many background jobs, Ruby is not ideal for that. However they became Twitter and owned that space before having to switch so Rails didn't harm them too.

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