Ruby is dying -- and the graph to prove it.

by illumen on 1/29/2009, 12:58 AM with 12 comments
  • by acangiano on 1/29/2009, 1:38 AM

    That's quite a sensationalist headline, don't you think?

  • by nickb on 1/29/2009, 2:18 AM

    Heh, fallacy with that chart is that it's tracking only MRI. There are many Ruby implementations in various stages of progress.

  • by on 1/29/2009, 1:21 AM

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  • by lacker on 1/29/2009, 4:59 PM

    This is pretty ridiculous - it's counting just one website, using "number of submits" as the metric, and when they say "dying" they mean "at the same level as 2007".

  • by lucraft on 1/29/2009, 2:14 PM

    Interesting... I wonder if there's a bias here? I know that Ohloh is not very popular in the Ruby community. What would you get if you used Github instead?

  • by kschrader on 1/29/2009, 6:22 AM

    Ruby is a tool that you use to build things. This is like saying that saws are dying because less wood was cut over the last few months.

  • by teej on 1/29/2009, 1:15 AM

    Relative to all commits tracked by whatever random website this is. Click "values" to see a slightly different story.

  • by schof on 1/29/2009, 3:44 AM

    Also, you see a vastly different picture if you click the "values" link rather than the "percent" link. Not sure why.