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Discussion on: Why Web developers still use Ruby on Rails?

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EGORIDI

As you said, Rails has paved the way for the others MVC (and variations) frameworks such as Django, Laravel and others. They have done it first and keep on doing it quite well. Every version brings important updates and Rails 6 is really awesome, including cache and front-end possibilities by the Javascript pipelines it has (and Node.js etc).

Sometimes it seems that other frameworks have made themselves famous in only by comparison to Rails. Also, it seems a good school for web dev.

Ruby is at the same time elegant, beautiful (the object model is astonishing...) and so powerful (I've even got myself making database queries in Ruby, instead of using Python, for the convenience)! Also, there seems to be a gem for everything.

And Ruby from 2.6 on (we're on 3.0) in blazing fast for a dinamically typed language! Even more than Python.

Ruby is amazing... try it if you haven't.

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Patrick Wendo

Syntactic genius of ruby is what sold me.

Specifically this type of loop

10.times do
Puts 'Hello fellow rubyist'
End

This one blew my mind when I learned about it. And the way everything is an object.

It's so beautiful