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> Rails burned out in under 10 years

It may not be the glory days, but Rail's is still going strong 13 years later. React, however, has reached a popularity many times larger than RoR ever did.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

There has never been a project (I can think of), other than the Linux kernel, with the resources that companies and developers have put behind React.

> Do you remember Adobe Flex

Flex never came close to either RoR or React popularity, and was propelled mostly by the dying wave of ActionScript programmers from the aughts after cell phones killed the Flash game market.




So is Flex[0]. What's your point? It's not popular anymore and hundreds if not thousands of code bases are being converted from both of these technologies into something else.

[0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...


> What's your point?

Seriously? Adobe Flex was a closed-source and proprietary commercial offering capitalizing on the prior decade's popularity of Flash.

React is open source with a vast and robust ecosystem of even more open source to go along with it. It couldn't be more night & day.


> Adobe Flex was a closed-source and proprietary

That confirms it: you aren't old enough to remember Flex. It was open source.


Please don't get involved in flamewars on HN.

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Sorry. That was not my intent.


Not until version 3 in 2008, after which it became Apache Flex. Maybe you should try to get both your facts and attitude straight.


Please don't get involved in flamewars on HN. Personal attacks in particular will get you banned here, so please don't do those.

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> React, however, has reached a popularity many times larger than RoR ever did.

> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

I'm not sure this chart is very good evidence of this claim. There are so many other things named "react" -- Nike React shoes, Kids React videos, reactionary politics, and so on -- that it's a bit like claiming Trump.js is the most popular JavaScript library in the world because of this chart: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...




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