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by santiagobasulto 3749 days ago
I don't see a lot of Ruby. What's going on?
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Ruby is part of the "Losers" in the Trending Tech. But so is Rust that is also the most Loved. The trend is only the number of upvotes in a topic year to year.

But this is always hard to interpret : does it mean that all basic questions have been asked so there is less activity or is it due to a drop in questions because lack of interest ?

Better proxy of a need/popularity for particular tech would be stats of stackoverflow careers tags not the questions
Use of Ruby is probably mostly for Rails and while Rails is still cool it's not as big as it was before. There's competition.