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Why I Still Use Ruby on Rails

When Rails first came around in 2004, web development was in a very different state than it was today. JavaScript was still pretty much restricted to the browser, since Node.js wouldn’t come around until 2010, Java was being written without frameworks like Spring Boot to make it somewhat bearable, and the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) was in vogue, due to PHP being widely supported and easy to deploy

A lot of time has passed since the early days of Rails, however. Why would anyone use Rails, or even dive back into learning it after all this time…

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https://medium.com/@shaffanm/why-i-still-use-ruby-on-rails-7581464b86be

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