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Ruby on Rails in 2025?

6 points by tbraglia ↗ HN
I'm currently studying to become a fullstack SWE and build some of the ideas I have. I kinda like the idea behind Ruby on Rails, but it's nowhere to be found in modern startups, and that's making me second guess my decision to use Ruby / Rails to learn web dev. Am i doing the wrong thing? Thanks a lot!

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chistev
It is used in modern startups.
KenSF
SF Ruby held one of our meetings at Y Combinator because they are big fans of Ruby on Rails. Check out any one of Irina Nazarova's talks about the startups that are starting with Rails. Rails is having a resurgence. I believe it is because Rails is dedicated to the one person dev team, perfect for startups, as well as the Rails 7 shift away from the need for React, the Rails 8 shift towards full support for PWAs, and the Hotwire Native extension which makes transitioning from PWAs to native mobile apps easy.

Also, remember, Chime is just one of the Rails companies which went public recently.