🆚 Go vs. Ruby on Rails
- 📈 Ruby on Rails is much more popular than Go.
- 🌎 Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Go is more popular in Saint Helena, Palau, and Mali.
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Go, also known as Golang, is a high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google for building efficient, scalable software and backend services.
It features garbage collection, fast compilation, a large standard library, and built-in concurrency using goroutines and channels based on the communicating sequential processes model, where goroutines can start with about 2 KB of stack memory and scale to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent tasks.
Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
It emphasizes a standardized project structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and "convention over configuration" principles, includes the Active Record ORM for database interaction, a built-in asset pipeline for managing 
CSS and 
JavaScript, and an integrated testing framework.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
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