If you do a search for Ruby on HN, you will see not only has there been very little Ruby news posted in recent months, there are also less voted, and less likely to be on Front Page.
I am not sure if Ruby or Rails Ecosystem is dying. But for sure it is not even hyped any more. And if anything no one on HN seems to care or interested in it anymore.
RoR just kind of works these days, what more is there to really say?. There is nothing more 'boring' than solid well tested technology that simply lets lots of people do their jobs in a predictable and well understood manner.
what you can see about rails and ruby when we have javascript. I mean, on js, every 2 weeks we have new frameworks, new libraries. And don;t forget go :)
If you want to make Ruby better, change the IO subsystem. Look towards Go and fork the language. It's the only path I see. Btw, I spent 8 years writing Ruby and would love to see that happen.
All of you seem to be missing the fact that the point of the post is that there is a shared feeling that, was Ruby backed by some big companies now it would be as fast as the current competitors, so this, or something similar (a different kind of funding path) is what needs to happen. What the post also stresses is that we are seeing something move in this direction (hint: check the comments at the article page).
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