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django vs ruby on rails vs laravel on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, django leads django vs ruby on rails vs laravel with 59,753 mentions to ruby on rails’s 28,251, peaking in Feb 2013.

Mention-over-time for django vs ruby on rails vs laravel, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

django59,753 mentions, peak Feb 2013ruby on rails28,251 mentions, peak Jan 2013laravel12,519 mentions, peak Jan 2022
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

The full-stack web framework baton: Django and Rails define the 2009–15 'MVC framework' era, trading the spotlight, then Laravel inherits it for the PHP world and surges 2019–21.

The stories behind each line

Top “django” stories
  1. Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0 720 points · 2017
  2. Django 3 657 points · 2019
  3. Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups 657 points · 2021
  4. Django 2.0 released 635 points · 2017
Top “ruby on rails” stories
  1. From Node to Ruby on Rails 941 points · 2021
  2. What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 545 points · 2024
  3. How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails 539 points · 2017
  4. Why Ruby on Rails still matters 524 points · 2025
Top “laravel” stories
  1. Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go 531 points · 2022
  2. Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP 501 points · 2021
  3. Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered? 392 points · 2019
  4. Laravel 9 285 points · 2022

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