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Re:Why Ruby on Rails still matters by user432678 on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:21PM (#43142169)
Failed or not, but at least for 2020 Y-Combinator Ruby-based startups valuation was more than other programming languages based startups combined.

https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...

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Re:Why Ruby on Rails still matters by artursapek on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:55PM (#43143123)
"Initial back-end language(s)"

Lmao you really think Stripe is still running primarily on Ruby? Yeah it's good for prototyping because it's fast to write in, but unmaintainable as hell for a real business.

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Re:Why Ruby on Rails still matters by user432678 on Sunday February 23, 2025 @05:28AM (#43148292)
Nobody said they still run on Ruby, but it’s far from “RoR failed”. Other example would be GitHub, still runs on Rails. Shopify, still runs on Rails. I agree, less people doing coding in Ruby, I myself written last line of Ruby a decade ago, but saying “RoR has failed” is just not true.

Update: found a thread here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834840 I doubt they’ve rewritten everything to Java for the last three years.

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