Jan Lelis @janl@mastodon.social
Here are 3 things why I believe the future of Ruby can be bright:
1) Lots of modern libraries are growing very fast these days
2) Modern Ruby implementations are in the works, and they show very promising improvements in performance. Especially TruffleRuby[1] and Ruby+OMR[2]
3) Rails seems to have less influence on the ecosystem these days (controversial? maybe)
1) http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/
2) https://developer.ibm.com/open/2016/11/18/introducing-ruby-jit/
@solnic I'd add three more points:
4) Ruby's ecosystem is big and a lot of libraries have become stable
5) Rails stays a good choice for webdev (at the same time agree with your on 3, it's healthy for the community to have more successful non-Rails projects)
6) It's more fun to program in Ruby than in comparable languages (still)
Ruby source code
# Prints number of users across Mastodon instances
require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
doc=Nokogiri(open('https://instances.mastodon.xyz/').read)
puts doc.css('tr').map { |tr|
td = tr.css('td')[1]
(td && td.text).to_i
}.inject(:+)
Mastodon the band has noticed my project, aaaaaaaaaaa https://twitter.com/mastodonmusic/status/849388922320949249
“Mastodon is a good technical achievement, but that’s not enough” by @stopsatgreen
https://medium.com/@stopsatgreen/mastodon-is-a-good-technical-achievement-but-thats-not-enough-a6ece58954e0
Good read. Points out what Mastodon needs for long-term viability.
@moritzheiber :electric_plug: :bulb:
