Ruby is a dead language and even people attending the conferences know that. That's why people there are playing silly games instead. Most of them probably show

Ruby is a dead language and even people attending the conferences know that. That's why people there are playing silly games instead. Most of them probably show up just to see their friends. There's a huge contingent of Rubyists in denial about the death of Ruby, but all signs point towards it going the way of Perl. On Tiobe and Github language surveys Ruby has had the biggest and longest drop in popularity of any language they track for years now.