> What do you guys think? Is Ruby dying? Did you once use Ruby and have now started to use something else? I was using Ruby as my main language for 3 years bef

> What do you guys think? Is Ruby dying? Did you once use Ruby and have now started to use something else? I was using Ruby as my main language for 3 years before I switched to first Coffeescript and then Scala now. Personally I prefer the simplicity (a function is a function) of Coffeescript and the richness (so many things to fool around) of Scala over Ruby. The popularity of languages don't die over the course of a couple of years. Projects with legacy code rely on them and maintenance of their libraries. And legacy code is very very hard to kill. If the interest is in finding out the trend of the "favorability" of a language, it might be more accurate to survey how many green field software products(not libraries, which could be driven by the need of improving some legacy code) are choosing it. Unfortunately, such survey is more expensive to perform, and might be close to impossible to perform retrospectively to understand the trend. Given the fact that the "popularity" of a language isn't that important, the favorability is probably even less, such survey is probably hard to justify.