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Github, Airbnb, Stripe, and Gitlab all use Ruby (on Rails) to a significant extend. Compelling things, if you ask me. Stripe is even developing Sorbet [0], a Ruby type checker.
Not that those are reason enough to use it. But I wouldn't call it the wrong decision either.
0 - https://sorbet.org/
yeah, you'll see this argument a lot.
If someone feels like re-implemnting all the wondeful conveniences of rails in Go, more power to them. However, that's a MASSIVE amount of work that you'll be doing _instead_ of actually making the webapp.
Go is great, but it's built in http support isn't even _remotely_ equivalent to the many years of accreted utility in Rails.
To put it another way, it's a false equivalence. No-one should EVER say "learn go" instead of rails. Now, if they said "lean Buffalo" ( https://gobuffalo.io/ a railsish framework in go) instead of Rails you could have a very reasonable discussion.
Nope. Not dead.
I'm building Avo to help developers ship apps faster than ever. Avo is to Rails what Rails is to web development.
https://avohq.io