Tell HN: I think Ruby on Rails is dying, and it makes me sad

[Ecco]

I've been using Rails for over a decade now, and contributed occasionally. I think it's a great framework and that Ruby is an awesome language.

Sure, it got some hype in the early 2010's, and understandably the hype went away. It doesn't really matter, it's really just hype.

Yet I feel like the framework is slowly dying.

Here's a simple GitHub issue I submitted 6 months ago : https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/39456 The only feedback it received was an upvote, and then… automated stale messages.

Here's another one, which suggest changing a default setting which is quite obviously wrong: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/39711 Again, the silent treatment.

And here's a PR I submitted, for what I think is a neat improvement (in a slightly advanced scenario). Got a couple comments (that didn't really address the core issue) like 6 months ago. And then, nothing but automated messages from a bot… https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/39520

It makes me feel sad. Especially with major companies like GitHub and Shopify using the framework…

[al2o3cr]

Re: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/39456 - feature requests without PRs attached are usually going to stale out. If you really really really want that feature, you'll need to help make it happen.

Re: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/39711 - it's not "quite obviously wrong", it's a default you disagree with.

Re: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/39520 - applications that already defined "to_param" in the model _and_ use a custom param name will behave differently if the model also responds to the custom param name. At a minimum, you'd need to allow opting-out of that approach to avoid breaking applications.

[gls2ro]

I disagree with the idea that Ruby on Rails is dying.

Lets take a look at some popular repositories on Github in the last week:

Rails - 13 merged PRs, 15 open PRs, 23 closed issues, 8 new issues with an average of 45 commits per week in October 2020.

React - 8 merged PRs, 17 open PRs, 20 closed issues, 8 new issues with an average of 13 commits per week in October 2020.

Vue - 2 merged PRs, 2 open PRs, 5 closed issued, 5 new issues with few commits happening in October 2020.

So I don't see Ruby on Rails dying.