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Ruby's status of having, like, two companies that are big and known to use Ruby (Shopify and 37Signals) is the reason why this was allowed to happen (three if you include Github, but my understanding is that its used less-and-less there). I have doubts that anyone could name another company or group most people have heard of using Ruby in any significant capacity. Its a dying language that does not have the legs to survive this drama.

>>827a+(OP)
Stripe, AirBnB, Instacart, Zendesk, Kickstarter, Mastodon, and if I remember right Coinbase was originally Rails as well.

>>WA9ACE+I4
Twitter also

>>gleenn+b8
Twitter famously eliminated as much ruby as practical from their codebase.

>>WA9ACE+I4
Many if not all of these companies are, to my knowledge, companies like Github which might still have some legacy parts of their system running Ruby, but aren't building significant new code in Ruby; and if they do have Ruby, are trying to reduce its prevalence in their system.

>>827a+rd
You're badly misinformed (or are intentionally spreading misinformation).

>>3by7+Bh
Your claim would have more standing if 1) it made sense vs. the news and recent yearslong turn away from Ruby development, and 2) if you included any sources or information other than "nuh uh"

>>3by7+Bh
I can vouch for at least one of those companies especially if we go by the "trying" bit of the GP.

>>mvdtnz+E9
Had to kill the failwhale.

>>3by7+Bh
Square was originally a single RoR monolith. We spent a decade burning it to the ground with a Java and Go microservice architecture.

Some product surface area remains Ruby, but Ruby was chased away by most teams.

Square brought in a lot of Xooglers over the years to lead the transition, so you see a lot of Google tech: protobufs, gRPCs, at one point a pre-Kubernetes Borg clone, etc.

>>WA9ACE+I4
GitLab too: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

>>leakyc+cm
'Download Github and look at the code'?