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guledali • Edited

Not dead just not hyped anymore similiar to ember.js or bootstrap en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

You won’t find anything more mature than ruby on rails in web development. It only takes one guy to do two-man jobs.

I think people that used to use ruby a lot were smaller companies, startups and they have now moved on to Node.js, python or something of that nature. Another thing is microservices these days. Backend development has been striped down to only “api mode only” a lot of benefits ruby on rails gives on building web application has reduced which made a lot developer look elsewhere.

Then we have the other problem which is less people are learning multiple languages today particularly javascript developers. Their respond is always why should I learn another language when I can do frontend as well backend in javascript. It’s a lot of that have made ruby less desirable.