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by amazing_jose 3878 days ago
«...who's still using Ruby.», is the last part of your comment implying that they are an endangered species?
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I'll just leave my tweeted photo from ElixirConf right here.

https://twitter.com/pmarreck/status/650430959951593472

That was a live survey done during the session. The long yellow bar, in case it's hard to read, represented Ruby.

It's not that hard to see why: https://speakerdeck.com/mosic/elixir-at-evercam?slide=6

> It's not that hard to see why: https://speakerdeck.com/mosic/elixir-at-evercam?slide=6

I'm not sure that's a fair explanation. You can do any of these things in the implementation language of a web app. But splitting them out into external applications has other advantages.

> But splitting them out into external applications has other advantages.

Such as?

I no longer use Ruby, we've moved to Clojure full-stack. But I still like to look at Opal from time to time.
Yes