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David Heinemeier Hansson joins Shopify's board

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54 points doppp | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 02:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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Alifatisk ◴[20 Nov 24 17:44 UTC] No.42196391[source]▶
I find it faschinating how much Shopify has invested in Ruby / Rails, at what point will Shopify just merge with the Ruby Team?
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moomoo11 ◴[21 Nov 24 16:31 UTC] No.42205966[source]▶
Do people still use rails?
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coffeeindex ◴[21 Nov 24 16:43 UTC] No.42206092[source]▶
Obviously?
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1. moomoo11 ◴[21 Nov 24 21:37 UTC] No.42208930[source]▶
Hm okay I was curious because I remember how popular rails got around like 2012-2014.

Since then I feel like most people just opt for go/node instead in my experience. Better performance and easier to deploy and scale.

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2. Alifatisk ◴[22 Nov 24 19:33 UTC] No.42216719[source]▶
I would say the hype around Rails has settled since a long time ago, that is maybe why you feel that but now since Rails 8, it is gathering a little bit momentum again.

But you should correlate what the talk of the town is with how much something is being used, it is still heavily used and a good option for startups.