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How come it says the popularity of Ruby has plummeted?
by whipoodle 9y ago
How come it says the popularity of Ruby has plummeted?
- overgard 9y agoAccording to the article they're basing it on job postings and stack overflow questions. Doesn't seem like a great methodology but I can't think of a better one.
- apeacox 9y agoStackOverflow already covers a great part of the possible (most common) Ruby related questions. I'm not surprised there aren't so much new ones in the last 1-3 years. About job postings, I don't know, I still get an average of 3-5 ruby job opportunities per week from recruiters. The same goes for several ruby devs I know. On the other hand, I see a lot of people switching to other new languages/stacks for several reasons (some of which are mentioned in the article). I'm one of them, but I still use ruby when it might fit the job (or is a requirement).
- whipoodle 9y agoI looked at TIOBE and Ruby was up year-over-year.