Github and enthusiasm

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 14:45:54 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 14:12:39 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> Ruby's far from dead, and a lot more than just Homebrew and 
>> Jekyll. For obvious reasons, Basecamp uses it. Github and 
>> Gitlab both use it. Sinatra is still very popular as is the
>
> Yes, Ruby is twice as large as Go (roughly) in terms of 
> projects that are being maintained, but much worse off than 
> Python:

Python's a juggernaut. There's no shame in failing to be as 
popular as Python. I don't particularly care for the language, 
but obviously a lot of people do or more likely don't care enough 
to use something else.

Where D comes in is with a good interoperability story for both 
Ruby and Python. If we succeed at that, which we unfortunately 
have not yet done, we benefit from their popularity.