[burlesona]

I don’t really think it’s so much that Ruby has declined in popularity (although Rails has), but that Python has exploded as it moved from Academia into data science and ML which are really big right now.

Ruby only ever has one big ecosystem (web development), whereas Python has expanded into several.

But Ruby isn’t going anywhere, so no need to be sad. It’s still a joyful scripting language, and its community is alive and well :)

[nurettin]

I used to watch rubygems.org rss to keep myself in the loop. Nowadays it is a deserted wasteland. Many previously popular gems never updated and thus do not work on newer versions of ruby.