[recursivedoubts]

I have been working in RoR for a long time and, yes, it is being surpassed by other languages/frameworks, particularly python and, obviously, javascript.

However, I think we are turning the corner on javascript-everywhere movement and that html-driven development is poised to make a big comeback:

https://htmldriven.dev/

With the adoption of html-driven tools like hotwire, unpoly or my own project, htmx, the choice of back-end becomes more open ended because any language can produce server side HTML, and usually pretty well.

My hope is that, with this development, platforms like RoR, php and even haskell[1] will gain new life in web development.

[1] - https://thisweek.htmx.org/issue/3/

[b20000]

great news. as a c++ developer i have long considered building sites server side in c++ so i do not have to learn anything else.

[benibela]

As a Pascal developer I have built all my sites in Pascal

Seriously. It is perfect. It gives you C++ like speed, memory safe strings, and near instant compilation

[b20000]

I don't see any advantage over pascal vs C++. I already know C/C++, so I'll stick to that. But great to hear that you are also using a compiled language that is not typically used for web development.

[beamatronic]

I was a Servlet and JSP developer. I really miss it. I liked it. I was good at it.

[thijsvandien]

And you were really... alive?

[beamatronic]

I did it for me.

[pg_1234]

Python and Typescript/Node are taking over Ruby's domain, and it's unlikely the trend will ever reverse.

[Zababa]

The htmldriven website is really weird. The "tool" section is entirely composed of thing to emulate a Javascript-heavy frontend. I would expect to see server-side rendered HTML frameworks.