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Um, really? Why are unicorns like Shopify or Github are still using Rails if that's the norm?
by wavesplash 5y ago
Um, really? Why are unicorns like Shopify or Github are still using Rails if that's the norm?
- joelbluminator 5y agoShopify is not a unicorn...sorry for nitpicking. Its a publicly traded company worth 210 billion dollars. It used to be a unicorn a long time ago.
- oblio 5y agoNow that I think of it, are there any major startups launched post Rails glory days? Some time around and before Rails 4.0, so 2013. Almost all the major former startups that I could find are from 2010 or earlier.
- montblanc 5y agoDepends on your definition of major. For a company to become a unicorn it usually takes 7 years (not sure on the number but it keeps changing). So many companies formed in 2015,16...+ aren't there still. Looking in Linkedin for Rails jobs there are a lot, not all of them are old companies. Gitlab is a very famous name(2014) but it too IPO'ed so it's not a startup anymore.
- oblio 5y agoGitlab definitely counts ;-)
- golergka 5y agoThe same reason Facebook uses php: that's what they started with and it's prohibitively complex, expensive and risky to change at their scale.