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> Because GitHub did.

Which was because two of the co-founders met at a Ruby meetup.

I can't find the quoted part in the article. Anyway, we met online a year after GitLab started, so by the time we met it was already decided to many it in Ruby.

Sorry, I paraphrased as part of forming a TLDR - the actual article is much more loquacious

> Dmitriy Zaporozhets decided to build GitLab, he chose to do it with Ruby on Rails, despite working primarily in PHP at the time. GitHub, a source of inspiration for GitLab, was also based on Rails, making it a logical pick considering his interest in the framework.

By co-founders, I meant why GitHub chose RoR, not GitLab.

Ah, thanks for explaining.

I was looking for a comment like this. I also assume the decision was influenced by GitHub which put RoR at it's high as well as what the original author ( Dmitriy ) decided to do so.

Anyway, why they stick to RoR these days is probably because they have invested too much into it ( same reason as of why FB is kinda stuck with PHP ).

This article doesn't make a lot of sense btw, since "they" ( hundreds+ people org ) did not choose anything as the reality is probably that one person ( Dmitriy Zaporozhets ) woke up one day and said "Hey let's see how far I can go with this."

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