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Wow, I thought Ruby was supposed to be an elegant and simple language for developers but now I realize why it's dying off. It looks like it's trying to cater to newbies and not real developers with all the syntax changes and odd paradigms. I'll stick with Python.

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What's wrong with catering to "newbies"? How do you define "real developers" vs. a newbie?

One of my previous teams at one of the big tech companies who's products or services you likely use every day had an entire suite of tests for data pipelines that were quickly implemented in Ruby. That system is still in production today.

I guess none of the folks on that team were "real developers", huh?

The folks at Basecamp, Github, AirBnb, Hulu, Kickstarter, MyFitnessPal, Twitch, or tons of other Rails-powered sites must not be "real developers" either...

Add Discourse as a rails app too which is becoming hugely popular. Also GitLab.

And GitHub and Basecamp and Twitter

OP already states 2 of those and I thought Twitter left rails forever ago.

I wonder to what extent are those 'a rails app'. Those are all huge apps with many microservices I would assume. Don't tell me Twitch backend is all rails.

While those examples may not be pure Rails apps anymore, it was the way they started. Rails was essential in making all those startups succeed and grow massively.

Definitely. Rails is great as a starting point. By the time a product/company has started to 'outgrow' it then of course migrating away might make sense and there'll more than likely be a large enough team at the time to do the migration.

A bit of YAGNI is clear here.

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