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Ask HN: Is Rails a sinking ship?

4 points by blohs ↗ HN
I am seeing a fewer Rails jobs out there, it feels like they have been overtaken by new cool kid on the block - those js libraries. Is Rails a sinking ship now?

This question will help programmers who might be thinking of starting their career in Rails.

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angersock
You don't want the Javascript jobs.

Rails is no longer bleeding-edge, but it is quite productive still and there will be gigs to come for another decade of helping do long-term support and maintenance on all the Rails stuff that sprang up in the last cycle.

Node/JS is probably going to die off in the face of better tech like Elixir and Elm.

jeremyw
A recent survey of startup tech floated on HN, and Ruby + Ruby on Rails took 30+%. Along with Python and others, the majority was sedate, but robust and mature technologies. I was pleased most startups are not wasting precious cycles chasing the hotness.