@nixCraft I love Rails, just saying....
@nixCraft GitHub runs on Ruby. Pretty relevant, I’d say.
@nixCraft Shopify is built on Ruby. "At its peak during BFCM, our platform handled a staggering 967K requests per second. That's equivalent to 58 million requests per minute. 
" Seems relevant?
@nixCraft panel 6 could be have the large character labeled "Elixir" with a voice bubble like "oh poppa, I'll always love you" 
@nixCraft ruby deserves to become irrelevant… specially because of its champions (RoR) 
@nixCraft Pretty sure you're disregarding the number of businesses that exist on Ruby (usually Rails). Further, Rails is still arguably still the fastest way to get from idea to web app.
It's hard to be fashionable when you're old. Everyone is all about static typing these days. That's great if you want to spend time arguing with a compiler. I'd rather write automated tests that demonstrate that I have the behavior I need.
@dplattsf in Ruby you can use RBS/Sorbet to validate type safety, or you can use dry-types/dry-schema to validate user input, or you can even use Crystal which has Ruby syntax but is Strongly Typed. Also, Type Systems are not the end-all-be-all, because most type systems are a) statically typed which allows implicit type conversion or b) have a String type which can contain *anything*. While type systems do reduce having to write some tests, you still have to write tests to validate your logic.
@postmodern that’s great. If you’re curious, you might want to look at the #fsharp UMXlibrary. That plus units of measure cleans up confusion with primitive types. https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharp.UMX. life is too short for implicit type conversion ;(
@nixCraft I have no idea why the tech community keeps insisting on hating on Ruby, despite it powering GitHub, Shopify, Stripe, AirBnB, and Mastodon which is a Rails app. Please stop bullying the Ruby community and get a hobby instead.
@nixCraft ruby never was all that relevant 
@nixCraft Exactly none of these are correct.