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Perl's decline was cultural

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mschuster91 ◴[] No.46175538[source]
I don't get why Ruby is mentioned before PHP. The only Ruby thing I've ever come across is GitLab, and not with positive associations either - up until maybe 3, 4 years ago particularly Sidekiq was a constant point of utter pain.
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1. cwyers ◴[] No.46175596[source]
I was surprised by that, too, and assumed it was a decade-old article until I saw the date at the bottom. Both being mentioned before Python is wilder, as is the total exclusion of JavaScript.
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2. mschuster91 ◴[] No.46175639[source]
JavaScript on the backend is a rare thing to see, even in "resume driven development" scenarios it's usually some sort of static build that gets pushed to S3 or whatever.
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3. DonHopkins ◴[] No.46175721[source]
Are you time traveling from 1998, when AOL acquired Netscape and sidelined Livewire?
4. cwyers ◴[] No.46175756[source]
Node.js is the most popular web framework/technology in the StackOverflow developer survey. Express is more popular than FastAPI, Django, Flask and Rails in the same survey. Just... what are you talking about?