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sam0x17 on Aug 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Rails still relevant in 2018?

Python is definitely becoming the language of ML stuff, largely thanks to Python being popular as a replacement for Java in academia. If you look at the general trend, python is on the rise: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%.... If you look at web frameworks though, you can see that Python web development has been stagnant since 2012: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%....

sam0x17 on Aug 28, 2018 [–]

That said, it looks like Rails interest is as stagnant as Python web framework interest, tracking almost exactly with interest in them, just more popular: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F06y...

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