Funnily enough Ruby is doing not too bad - according to contributions [1] it's at stable speed since 2008 (!) without any slowdown. Similarly Rails [2] looks li

Funnily enough Ruby is doing not too bad - according to contributions [1] it's at stable speed since 2008 (!) without any slowdown. Similarly Rails [2] looks like healthy, steady project. Ruby/Rails, for rapid prototyping [3] with minimal friction [4] it's still, after years, considered by many, as the best tool for the job. [1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/graphs/contributors https://github.com/ruby/ruby/graphs/contributors [2] https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors [3] rapid prototypes land as production systems - that's a pro tip. [4] minimal friction on all levels that you, as a programer care - from reading and writing code, scaffolding, dev/staging/production deployment, database migrations, testing to caching etc. - not many setups give you all of this.