Ruby is dying -- and the graph to prove it.(ohloh.net)

Ruby is dying -- and the graph to prove it.

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&percent=true&l0=java&l1=javascript&l2=-1&l3=python&l4=ruby&l5=-1&commit=Update

8 comments

acangiano17 anni fa

That's quite a sensationalist headline, don't you think?

nickb17 anni fa

Heh, fallacy with that chart is that it's tracking only MRI. There are many Ruby implementations in various stages of progress.

mechanical_fish17 anni fa

Fallacy B is pretending that the rate at which the interpreter is patched is some sort of measure of a language's quality, or of its community's health. As if the goal of a language designer wasn't to reach the point where the core was stable. As if running the risk of breaking existing code was a good thing.

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lacker17 anni fa

This is pretty ridiculous - it's counting just one website, using "number of submits" as the metric, and when they say "dying" they mean "at the same level as 2007".

lucraft17 anni fa

Interesting... I wonder if there's a bias here? I know that Ohloh is not very popular in the Ruby community. What would you get if you used Github instead?

kschrader17 anni fa

Ruby is a tool that you use to build things. This is like saying that saws are dying because less wood was cut over the last few months.

illumen17 anni fa

Not quite.

It's like saying, saws are dying because more people are using motorised robot cutting machines now.

teej17 anni fa

Relative to all commits tracked by whatever random website this is. Click "values" to see a slightly different story.

illumen17 anni fa

I think the values graph has a bug at the end point... It looks like it is displaying half a month or something -- for every language. For values it still shows a drop for ruby, apart from the bug at the end.

ohloh is a website which tracks lots of open source projects. 266,149 projects was the count at the time of writing.

sheatsb17 anni fa

Empirically, the Ruby is far from death. There is an active community, more publications than before, and an array of frameworks (Sinatra, Rhodes, RoR) to choose from. Saying Ruby is dying is like looking at a single tree in the forest, noticing it's diseased, and claiming the entire forest will fall to that disease.

Also, it's being forked for individual reasons, like Ruby Enterprise, thanks to sites like github.

illumen17 anni fa

There's less people writing ruby code. Both in the interpreter itself, and for open source projects using ruby. You can see on that page a graph showing less people are writing ruby code too.

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schof17 anni fa

Also, you see a vastly different picture if you click the "values" link rather than the "percent" link. Not sure why.