r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • 23h ago

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 22h ago

Still is, just silent in the background chugging along.

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u/chem199 22h ago

It is not as prevalent as it used to be. RoR was the framework du jour for a while, and I remember a ton of places using Capybara and Watir for AT work. You don’t see the demand for those as much in my corners of the industry.

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 21h ago edited 21h ago

Agreed, it's not the most popular starting point for some folks these days, but development of Rails and Ruby itself keep going. I see a few job postings here and there for it, you see some companies starting up with slightly older CTOs still reaching for it cuz they know it best and it works well. Rails' creator, DHH, even makes a point of Ruby being one of the most token-efficient languages for AI tools, for what that's worth.

Again I know it's not the most popular stack these days, it's certainly not everywhere anymore. I still think some folks would be surprised at knowing it's still chugging along and far from legacy stuff.

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u/chem199 21h ago

It’s always weird to remember that GitHub is still very much on the Rails train.

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 18h ago

Don't remind them or Microsoft will try to rewrite it in typescript. /s

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u/DDFoster96 13h ago

Surely rewriting it in typescript can't make the uptime any worse than they manage with Ruby?

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u/TimeToBecomeEgg 4h ago

genuinely atp a rewrite might help because it’s difficult to imagine it making it worse

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u/Juff-Ma 4h ago

GitLab too, all Ruby