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Discussion on: The State of Ruby 2019: Is It Dying?

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Vinicius Brasil • Edited

Data say you’re wrong. Just search for jobs on Stack Overflow Jobs and you’ll see the amount of back-end openings for Ruby.

Also, dev.to and GitHub are built with Rails.

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NullVoxPopuli

And gitlab

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David J Eddy

I think Square's web app is also Ruby.

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David J Eddy • Edited

@jorge Castro

Every job listing site is misleading due to the compartmentalization inherent in using a job site.

Why is working for a small company/startup not valid? The same problems apply and the paycheck clears the bank. Not everyone likes waiting 3 months for SSH access to a non-prod environment (big orgs). As for locationali availability; It's 2019; location is almost the smallest bearer to overcome in terms of employment.

Languages, IDEs, OSes, Job Sites, etc are all tools. Our goal as developers should be singularly focuses on leveraging the correct tools that provide business value.