Few thoughts by Błażej Kosmowski why he believes Ruby is doing great and still remains a good technology to choose in 2019.
There is no doubt that it is still a relevant language and it still attracts new followers and developers. Here is why:
- GitHub’s top programming language
- The community is active and supportive
- Ruby constantly evolves
- It really is great for startups… and for internal tools… and prototyping… and whatnot
- Ruby has well-established code style recommendations
- Developer happiness
But why is Ruby slowing down? There is no easy answer to that question, but we can theorise about it. It is likely that Ruby has matured enough and lost some momentum. however vast amount of libraries and resources for learning, helpful and active community, well established best practices and beautiful, readable syntax – all this makes ruby a programming language it is a pleasure to work with – a language oriented on developer happiness.
Last but not least, what should be kept in mind that there are no “bad” programming languages per se, there are only badly chosen languages for particular use cases. Good read!
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