> Wait, you consider Ruby a winning horse? I hear it's a fun language -- probably a great one -- but it's already beginning to fade [...] it never threatened PH

> Wait, you consider Ruby a winning horse? I hear it's a fun language -- probably a great one -- but it's already beginning to fade [...] it never threatened PHP's dominance If a winning horse is one that earns the rider more money (while also being more fun to ride!), then for me and all the Ruby devs I know, Ruby is a winning horse compared to PHP. > important codebases last for decades. Yes, and the author did well to avoid naming their article "Elixir - The next big language for important codebases that will last for decades". :-)