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by yangez 5368 days ago
It would be nice if Ruby was one of the permitted languages.
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OwlHuntr 5368 days ago
Right? They're alienating a very large developer community.

I tried to send them an email about ruby support and the typo on their compilers page but their email form doesn't even work. I take this to be way too amateurish and scam-like.

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parfe 5368 days ago
"very large" and "very loud" are two different things. I'm sure you'll take exception with any metric that shows Ruby to be a less common language but

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ruby 127 questions.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/python 272 questions.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/php 466

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bromagosa 5368 days ago
In a website for programming challenges, the market status of a language should be the least regarded metric to decide whether to include it or not.

Just check this out: http://projecteuler.net/languages

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buster 5368 days ago
What about the infamous TIOBE Index? http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html There should be atleast 3 other languages before ruby then ;)
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saintfiends 5368 days ago
https://github.com/languages

http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

I wonder what made Lua take the leap.

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parfe 5367 days ago
The rails ecosystem moved to github bringing along the community. Ruby eggs, one basket.
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