[bantunes]

Do you have any evidence that it's been used less and less?

[jstummbillig]

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

[homebrewer]

Do you reckon Ubuntu is used by fewer people than it was 20 years ago?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=ubuntu&date=all

[jstummbillig]

I don't know but I still fully take the criticism: Google Trends is not an indicator of absolute usage, but (if anything) relative usage. It's not clear which of the two parent referred to.

[Alifatisk]

Trend is not equivalent to usage.

The amount of pushes seem to be steady if you look at Ruby, https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pushes/2024/1

Just because something is not hyped up or talked about constantly doesn't mean it's dying.

[ilvez]

Glad to see Estonia being number 4 in that list. We have some nice successful businesses built on Ruby.

[workfromspace]

Same. Dropping this related list here: https://ruby.ee/members/ (This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it :)

[rsanheim]

this is evidence of google searches. nothing more.

[dudisubekti]

There's also the TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ruby/

It conveys similar trend to Google Search chart

[wiseowise]

Because it uses same metrics.

If you want to see real usage statistics you need to consult GitHub, JetBrains, RedMonk ratings.

[dudisubekti]

Okay:

https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

Ruby took a nosedive from 5th "top used" programming language in 2016 to 10th in 2022

[viraptor]

Those are relative positions. We can't talk about a "nosedive" from that. It may be the case, but also maybe Ruby was just the slowest growing out of a number of languages growing in popularity. We don't have enough data from there.

[jstummbillig]

"nothing more" doing a lot of work.