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by colesantiago 2042 days ago
At this point Ruby (which is still slow and dynamic compared to most other faster languages) looks like a sunk cost.

Only reason why it's still alive is Rails, I don't see much hope for it longer term, Crystal and Elixir does IMO.

Using Ruby/Sorbet screams using JS/Flow to me, instead of using a language with types built in.

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Obviously programming language preferences are like favorite flavors of ice cream, but Ruby is still the best scripting language there is IMHO.
> At this point Ruby (which is still slow and dynamic compared to most other faster languages) looks like a sunk cost.

Can you expand on why you think this is?