Ask HN: Would you learn Rails nowadays?

No. I learned Rails a year ago upon joining my first Rails-using company. My 20 years in software engineering says that Rails is the wrong pattern. Recent chats with a recruiter in the Boston area who has gotten me jobs in the past say they're having trouble finding people to fill Rails jobs. People don't want to work in Rails.

OTOH; I could be wrong. Lots of successful products have been written in Rails (including at my current employer). There's still a 3 month intensive here teaching Rails as their first platform; but the curriculum has been split to now also do node.js

I work with Ruby on Rails in my day job in NYC. I see that plenty of companies are using Rails. I recently switched jobs and had a slew of interviews lined up before selecting my current place. I think the greater issue I saw was that companies were more focused on experience level than tech stack. It's pretty hard for a junior developer to land a gig, especially since the market is flooded by bootcamp grads.