Comments on: “I guess Ruby is over: it Was Fun While it Lasted.”

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:57:42 +0000

As you said @peter, I've also a lot of fun with Ruby/Rails and it's incredibly community growing. I'll never say with evidence which one is better, but as a startup developer who has developed small Web apps and has migrated to linux, I find it very cool and of the best open source projects that could concurrency .NET technologies

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By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:31:50 +0000

@draegtun well err... that was my point too, i.e. that you should not use github to prove that Ruby is on the rise/decline.

To follow the trend makes more sense - but that could just mean that python guys started to discover github more rcently... and a lot of other things.

Bottom line: everybody should think twice before implying A => B. That's all I wanted to say with this post.

By: draegtun

draegtun — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:41:11 +0000

Don't use GitHub share as an example because it shows current state rather than adoption rate. So as other languages / communities join GibHub then Ruby early adopter share inevitable drops ;-(

IIRC.... Ruby was 37% a month or so ago. Perl as doubled & Python as increased by 50% in roughly the same time.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:59:11 +0000

@Thelonius everyone is welcome to harp on anything

Sorry if it came across like that, I definitely didn’t mean that Ruby is the only language used in Nasa – that would be wishful (and just plain stupid) thinking…

By: working

working — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:16 +0000

good ruby/rails developers will always be missing, because rails and ruby push for good practice... so to be good at ruby and rails you have to be smart and educated. to know and understand the good practice and use them as a tool instead of a religion , needs a lot of brain power. . this requirement filters out a lot of people.

By: Thelonius

Thelonius — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:52:24 +0000

Sorry to harp on such a small detail but NASA also uses python. And more than likely c and perl and several other languages.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:37:57 +0000

OK, point taken – sorry Tim . I guess my sarcasm filter is turned too low these days, after the 83839581293th rant on why Ruby is over, sarcastic or not.

By: Avdi

Avdi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:10:33 +0000

Yep, pretty sure that was a joke on Tim Bray's part.

By: Robert Zolkos

Robert Zolkos — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:49:34 +0000

Yeah, it was definitely a sarcastic tweet by Tim Bray. Nonetheless this was a fun blog post to read!