Is Ruby dead?

I have the impression that nobody talks about Ruby and Rails anymore, that it is losing popularity

Don't you feel that way?

Top comments (3)

I think Rails is alive and kind of popular. Yeah, sure you can now write backends in Go, Rust, Elixir, Crystal, JavaScript or TypeScript, Python, Kotlin or Java, maybe something else, but IMO Rails is still the best one to create an MVP very fast without too many troubles (due to Ruby being pretty easy to grasp and the number of gems for Rails). I would like to mention that Dev.to is using Rails.

As for Ruby, yeah it lost some popularity, some Ruby users started using Elixir and stayed with it, also there are now many more languages to pick from. But with pattern matching, performance improvements (MJIT) and async stuff (Ractor, Fiber Scheduler) which were in other languages at this point (except for pattern matching but it's not that important), Ruby might again gain some popularity.