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Is Ruby Dying?

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Re: Is Ruby Dying?

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Post by jerf »

You just may not be used to Ruby not having the exciting fire of initial hype. That is dead. But that's good. Languages can't live like that forever. Sooner or later they need to stop the wild experimenting, find some best practices and things that work, and settle down and ram home the things that work.

Ruby has entered final maturity. It will be in that phase until such time as it really does die, which could well be 10-15 years. Or more, though, honestly, I doubt that in 2028 we'll be considering Ruby anything more than legacy code... that's not because of Ruby itself, but rather the language category it is in. I expect we'll be looking at Python and Perl the same way.

Oh, and kudos for running numbers before simply writing the "Ruby is dying!" blog post!

Re: Is Ruby Dying?

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Post by polysics »

jerf wrote: post #4

You just may not be used to Ruby not having the exciting fire of initial hype. That is dead. But that's good. Languages can't live like that forever. Sooner or later they need to stop the wild experimenting, find some best practices and things that work, and settle down and ram home the things that work. Ruby has entered final maturity. It will be in that phase until such time as it really does die, which could well…

What do you reckon could not be legacy code in 15 years? C family, Java, maybe Erlang?
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