[pqdbr]

Rails is not only alive and well, but actually booming.

[nonconstant]

There's a new data point: Ruby is #5 most used and #3 most loved language as per the recent Pragmatic Engineer survey! https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng...

[Octoth0rpe]

> Rails is not only alive and well, but actually booming.

Do you have any references that validate this?

Rails 'booming' on a 3 year time scale wouldn't surprise me, but would on a 10 year scale.

[nonconstant]

We're experiencing a global peak of Ruby meetups (globally). About 800-900 meetups in the last 12 months as per https://rubyconferences.org/meetups/ I'm hosting probably the largest Ruby meetup in San Francisco, see https://lu.ma/sfruby

Rails is not at the peak of visibility (like it was in 2008-2014), it is not a "default stack for new products" but here's what we see: Rails startup just did a large IPO (Chime), another Ruby startup filed for IPO (Figma) Rails startup just posted a record ARR growth (bolt.new)

Lots of startups and lots of success stories. See https://evilmartians.com/events/startups-on-rails-in-past-pr...

Again, not the #1 or "default" choice, which is probably a good thing, because we are past the hype+disappointment cycle and on the pragmatic side of things.