I’ve found Ruby to be very attractive; I like the fact that everything is an object and its syntax is very appealing.
I was hoping that it would gain a lot of popularity this year, but I don’t see lot of activity in Ruby.
For instance if we take the number of tags added in SO there are only about 700 questions tagged as ‘ruby.’ This may be because:
- Ruby is so easy, noone has any questions.
- This site attracts more from the.Net community and Ruby developers ignore its existence.
- There are not as many Ruby projects as there projects in other programming languages.
Other resources show Ruby is not as popular as other programming languages.
What reasons do you think are behind this?
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There’s a lot of activity with Ruby in web-based development. You just have to join the right communities and lists.
I don’t think it will ever be as popular as C/C++ (because of the existence of already deployed code and a developer base) or Java (because I imagine it isn’t quite as easy to understand at first).