<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 17 Aug 2020, at 16:29, Edmond Lepedus <<a href="mailto:ed.lepedus@googlemail.com" class="">ed.lepedus@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’ve been asked questions like “Isn’t Rails abandonware now?”, been pointed to StackOverflow’s developer survey (<a href="https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-other-frameworks-libraries-and-tools-loved3" class="">https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-other-frameworks-libraries-and-tools-loved3</a>) as ‘evidence’ for NodeJS’s superiority and been told that “the majority of Rails consultants make their money on migrating people to other platforms”. </div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>In case it’s ever useful, as a counterpoint to the data in the StackOverflow survey, 93% of respondents to the latest Planet Argon survey said that Rails remained their server-side framework of choice (<a href="https://rails-hosting.com/2020/#is-rails-your-server-side-framework-of-choice" class="">https://rails-hosting.com/2020/#is-rails-your-server-side-framework-of-choice</a>).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>That strongly suggests to me that StackOverflow's 50.7% for Ralis "of developers who are developing with the language or technology but have not expressed interest in continuing to do so” is not telling as simple a story as it seems.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>— James</div></body></html>