| ▲ | Alifatisk 6 days ago |
| I find it faschinating how much Shopify has invested in Ruby / Rails, at what point will Shopify just merge with the Ruby Team? |
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| ▲ | dismalaf 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Probably never. DHH wants to keep Rails small enough that a 1 person founder can use it and be productive with it. Shopify is already massive and some of their projects are taking them in a different direction than DHH wants for Rails. For example, Liquid templates (which are intentionally less powerful than ERB since they're designed to be used by Shopify store owners) and Sorbet (DHH hates types). |
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| ▲ | Onavo 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Their pet web framework remix is also quite underfunded compared to Next.js | | | |
| ▲ | ksec 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Sorbet (DHH hates types). I believe Sorbet is from Stripe? | | |
| ▲ | dismalaf 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Ugh, all the companies that start with S and use Ruby. My bad. Got thrown off because they have Sorbet stuff in Ruby LSP and other Sorbet tools. They have 1.1k Github repos... Lots of TS, Go, Rust and lots of non-Rails things... | |
| ▲ | fjyasdlkjw 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I hope this leads to DHH adopting Sorbet into Rails given Shopify has a strong interest in it. On second thought, It is a large investment for something that isn't a core Ruby feature. |
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| ▲ | gardenhedge 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Shopify also owns remix/react router |
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| ▲ | moomoo11 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Do people still use rails? |
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| ▲ | deciduously 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | https://israilsdead.com/ | |
| ▲ | coffeeindex 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Obviously? | | |
| ▲ | moomoo11 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Hm okay I was curious because I remember how popular rails got around like 2012-2014. Since then I feel like most people just opt for go/node instead in my experience. Better performance and easier to deploy and scale. | | |
| ▲ | Alifatisk 4 days ago | parent [-] | | I would say the hype around Rails has settled since a long time ago, that is maybe why you feel that but now since Rails 8, it is gathering a little bit momentum again. But you should correlate what the talk of the town is with how much something is being used, it is still heavily used and a good option for startups. |
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