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kevinconaway on Nov 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

>Ruby is used in a lot of places where Rails isn't, by a few large companies.

And indirectly by many more who use chef

jhbadger on Nov 22, 2018 [–]

And many people use Homebrew on OSX, or Linuxbrew (homebrew for Linux -- useful especially for users of beowulf clusters who often don't have rights to install anything except in their home directories), and brew and its formulas are written in Ruby.

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