Ruby on Rails’ popularity has been a topic of debate in recent years, but before we talk about that, it’s important to have a bit of context. Ruby on Rails (RoR) was created in 2004, but it did not enter the scene until 2005 when it introduced a fresh approach to building Web applications. Then, in 2006, it won the “Programming Language of the Year” award from Tiobe.
RoR is about 15 years old and relatively young compared to the other frameworks, such as Javascript, C++ or PHP. In recent years, RoR’s popularity has had its highs and lows as the Tiobe chart shows us, reaching its peak of popularity in 2009. But overall, it has remained constantly relevant since 2010.
However, interest in RoR is clearly much lower compared to other languages of a higher domain, such as Java. This is shown by Google Trends below, where the red curve represents Java and the blue one, RoR.
Despite the statistics related to other languages, RoR is still very popular. The framework is used by almost a million…
