Don’t call it a comeback—Ruby hasn’t gone anywhere.
I get it that the hype around Ruby and Rails has—thankfully—subsided but Ruby is even better today than it was then.
I get it that the hype around Ruby and Rails has—thankfully—subsided but Ruby is even better today than it was then.
Sure when it was hype a decade ago you'd get lots of flashy tools and library every other days, but a large part of it was really wonky.
Now that the dust settled, the tools that remain largely used are much higher quality.
Ruby gets results.
This is not the case today. And most of those startups also had to then migrate to Go/Java/etc. to scale.
You can scale anything if architected right.
You can't make languages fast and fun to write in if they aren't that to begin with. There's a lot to be said for dev morale and productivity.
I.e https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20349004
"I worked at Twitch from 2014 to 2018... No more Ruby on Rails because no good way was found to scale it organizationally; almost everything is now Go"