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Why is Shopify using "Ruby on Rails" to build its $3 billion dollar e-commerce business?

Sameer Kumar on September 15, 2021

It would be an understatement to say Shopify is the unicorn of the eCommerce business. Shopify is used by millions of merchants all over the world ...
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Stephane Paquet

This is an amazing story that proves that Rails can scale and be used in critical apps.
It's also important to highlight that Shopify market valuation is now above 140 billion USD.
Thank you for sharing

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Allan MacGregor 🇨🇦

I'm sorry but how doesq the title make sense? Is the author's claim that Ruby is a dead language? Nothing is mentioned on the article itself to justify the claim; it seem this is purely a click bait article

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Eljay-Adobe

Cool that Shopify uses Ruby on Rails, which is definitely not a dead programming language.

What is the dead programming language Shopify uses?

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