I deliberately avoided the word "dead", and did my very best to make the nuanced, based in many sourced numbers and compare it to other technology that is old o

I deliberately avoided the word "dead", and did my very best to make the nuanced, based in many sourced numbers and compare it to other technology that is old or older yet does continue to run on. To cite the last paragraph, in case you did not read all the way through: > Does that mean learning Ruby or Rails is a poor career choice? Certainly not! The demand for Rails and Ruby developers is high as ever, if only because general demand for developers is ever increasing. And all that SAAS, built since 2008, needs developers for the coming decades. But be aware of the risk of becoming the COBOL or Perl developer maintaining some dusty legacy if the downward trend for Ruby continues as it did last decade.