Happily belong to the weird group, as dev.to is built on Rails. It's still a great ecosystem—but not necessarily because Ruby is perfect for this use case. It's just how things evolve and Ruby's place in the world relative to Java and co at the time that Rails started taking off. A lot of Rubyists at the time thought it was a really weird direction to take the language.
I think Ruby isn't as hot anymore, that's the difference. Just a "few" years back, Ruby was the hot thing people switched to from Python and from PHP. Nowadays, I think Ruby entered the stage where it's a long-term language to stay but it's definitely not the "hot" thing anymore.
I'd trust building a project in Rails as much as I would in Django or Laravel. All long-term players at this point.
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Happily belong to the weird group, as dev.to is built on Rails. It's still a great ecosystem—but not necessarily because Ruby is perfect for this use case. It's just how things evolve and Ruby's place in the world relative to Java and co at the time that Rails started taking off. A lot of Rubyists at the time thought it was a really weird direction to take the language.
I think Ruby isn't as hot anymore, that's the difference. Just a "few" years back, Ruby was the hot thing people switched to from Python and from PHP. Nowadays, I think Ruby entered the stage where it's a long-term language to stay but it's definitely not the "hot" thing anymore.
I'd trust building a project in Rails as much as I would in Django or Laravel. All long-term players at this point.