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markus heiler

Rubygems is great but I do not rely on it.

I can write whatever I need just fine, if I need it.

I wrote my own "package" manager in ruby and have been using that for ~13 years to manage my *nix systems.

I once joked that Elixir is powered by thousands of angry Rubyists

Elixir has great ideas; erlang is awesome, but the syntax of erlang is UTTER SHIT.

But even then, too few people use elixir; and even fewer use crystal.

Say what you want about ruby but ruby IS used by LOTS of people.

I think this is mostly about maturity but I think it will get there.

This depends on how many people use a language. Crystal struggles a lot because of this - too few people go into crystal. Which is a shame. But I myself also am not using crystal, primarily due to lack of time; but also because the type-madness leads to syntactic monsters that I don't want to deal with.

Note that ruby 3.0 will get additional type information, so some of your fake-complaints above may be answered.

I still think your article is horrible though. Please try to make your points more objective in general.