| "Ruby (my personal interest, here) has been steadily gaining share in that chart year over year, despite not being "cool" anymore." I have a comment from yesterday that is (rightly) sitting at -4 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28501661) that seems relevant: The rise of Ruby on that chart can be directly correlated with the rise of Shopify. Elsewhere they note that Shopify "accounts" for 3.9% of the top million websites. The bulk of Ruby's increase. Though I'm suspicious of the accuracy of their numbers. Most modern tech stacks don't announce themselves in the way that PHP did, and they clearly used curated metadata to attribute some major content engines (e.g. Shopify = Ruby, Wordpress = PHP, Wikis = PHP, etc), which means that anything outside of the top identifiable content engines isn't going to have proper attribution. Further, note that literally any use gets credited. Look at the "popular sites using Shopify" at - https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-shopify Overwhelmingly they get the shopify/ruby credit for linking to a minimal checkout experience on a subdomain. That seems...incredibly dubious. Still neat though. But what it really demonstrates is that product wins, not technology. Wordpress is clearly a winning product. Shopify is a winning product. |