[gherkinnn]

Github, Airbnb, Stripe, and Gitlab all use Ruby (on Rails) to a significant extend. Compelling things, if you ask me. Stripe is even developing Sorbet [0], a Ruby type checker.

Not that those are reason enough to use it. But I wouldn't call it the wrong decision either.

0 - https://sorbet.org/

[reducesuffering]

They all started the projects from 2009-2013 picking Rails, the most popular web framework at the time: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=ruby-on-rails...

If you were to follow in their footsteps, you'd also be picking the top popularity web framework for your time, which as of now is things like Next.js and Django.

Big recent-era startups:

OpenSea (Django / Next.js)

Notion (Node.js)

ScaleAI (Python, Node.js, Next.js)

Substack (Node.js)

Rippling (Django / Next.js)

[ryanbrunner]

Shopify is another notable one.