Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails dying?

No, we just got version 6 and it has some nice features. The development over the last years was good but if we are honest Rails is not the cool kid anymore. About 6 years ago I moved from my Rails job to a node.js job and 3 years ago I moved to another job where I am now using Rails again where I use it for a data wrangling job. Having a good framework in a language you like is very important for your own productivity. What made Rails special way back when was that it was almost the only one. Now it is just one of many. If you like Ruby chose Rails, if you like PHP, Python or something else you have choices too.

Recap: Ruby on Rails is not dying, it just isn’t the cool kid anymore.

I don't use Ruby on Rails but if you just scan open tech positions you'll see a lot of new startups and existing companies are based on Ruby. So I'd say it is not dying, but likely has slowed down some.

IMO every language essentially goes through this, gets popular for some period and then slows down to become either mainstream or it falls away. I'd personally say Ruby went mainstream, it definitely isn't fringe and it isn't the new hot stuff but real companies rely on it daily.

GitHub, Shopify and Basecamp are all running on Rails 6.

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Truth be told Node.js, Laravel and Phoenix are steadily chipping away at its piece of the cake.