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by rurounijones 2093 days ago
I have been noticing that a lot as well on other places. Ruby is no longer a "Default supported" language in many new projects.

OpenTelemtry for example doesn't include Ruby in its initial beta program announcement.

".NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, and Erlang!"

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>Ruby is no longer a "Default supported" language in many projects.

Well it has always been like that. Amazon and Google has always had a thing about Ruby, and it is a minority market so I am not surprised and it doesn't make sense from Business perspective. But Github is a heavy Ruby users so I would have thought Ruby would be a first class citizen. I wonder if it has something to do with the language complexity.

Edit: From Github.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23094160

We (GitHub) absolutely plan to expand the list of languages CodeQL supports, and Ruby is a language we'd love to add (we're heavy users of it internally). In the meantime, because code scanning is extensible you can plug in third party analysis engines to scan the languages that CodeQL doesn't support.