Jesus who hurt you? picking on ruby is an odd take for WIRED

I’m not the only person who’s bearish on Ruby. On Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey, it’s been slipping in popularity for years, going from a top-10 technology in 2013 to 18th this year—behind even Assembly. Among newer developers, Python and JavaScript rank much higher. Ruby persists, for now, as a kind of professional comfort object, sustained by the inertia of legacy code bases and the loyalty of those who first imprinted upon it. But nostalgia and a pretty name won’t cut it.

Really not sure why WIRED decided to ride in on their high horse and shit on ruby.

_{Quote Citation: Sheon Han, “Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language | WIRED”, 2025-12-01, https://www.wired.com/story/ruby-is-not-a-serious-programming-language/}