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Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still worth learning?

123 points by bizkitgto ↗ HN
I'm looking to learn more about web software. I like the all in one approach of the Rails framework, but fear it may be losing popularity. Any thoughts? If you were to advise someone today what the best approach to learning web development would be, what direction/resource/book would you recommend?

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mercer
What's your view on ORM's like Ecto (for Elixir) and possibly Sequel that, from my impression so far, stick closer to the underlying SQL? I find myself generally agreeing with your view on things, but my impression of ActiveRecord has somehow become relatively negative. I don't know enough to know what to think, so I'm curious how you see ActiveRecord in relation to the alternatives.
abledon
question asked about web software, is this not more of 'cutting edge language experiment'?