Github and enthusiasm

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 14:14:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 14:12:39 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Saturday, 7 December 2019 at 21:59:28 UTC, JN wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 7 December 2019 at 21:38:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>>> Grøstad wrote:
>>>> Is Ruby being swallowed up by Python perhaps?
>>>
>>> Has been for quite some time. Ruby was never that popular 
>>> outside of Ruby on Rails. For the most part, RoR was Ruby. 
>>> But RoR is not as popular anymore, Python and other languages 
>>> adopted similar ideas for web frameworks and ate Ruby's 
>>> lunch. Outside of Homebrew on macOS and Jekyll, the blog 
>>> engine, I am not aware of any popular Ruby usages in the wild 
>>> nowadays.
>>
>> 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 
>> mail gem. Some others that come to mind are Chatwoot, Redmine, 
>> and OpenProject. There are tons of others. I'd be very happy 
>> if D could reach the popularity of Ruby.
>
> I forgot Discourse

You also forgot that Oracle, Red-Hat and IBM spend resources 
making Ruby JIT compilers, via Graal, Truffle, JRuby and RubyOMR 
projects.