> ...there is less and less reason to invest time writing code in Ruby... It seems to me that Ruby is doing just fine - the community is thriving, MRI is advan

> ...there is less and less reason to invest time writing code in Ruby... It seems to me that Ruby is doing just fine - the community is thriving, MRI is advancing quite rapidly. In reality people find Ruby to be a good solution. > I question why anyone would start a new project using Ruby at all. Actually there's a whole Ruby world out there besides Rails, even for web apps/services. I've been tempted numerous times to start new projects using alternatives such as Erlang, node.js or Go, only to find myself finally going back to Ruby. The reasons: it's versatile, convenient, familiar, and to be honest, for much of the stuff that Ruby does, and for many different uses, it performs just fine, and it continues to improve at a steady pace. > This is not a troll, I really don't think there are significant benefits anymore. A sweeping statement like this, how can it not be taken as trolling?