[yyyyz]

Can you name one way Ruby has parity with Python? Ruby is a dead language that uses sponsored posts here. Nobody actually uses this since like 2018 but some people are paid to hype it up. Just look at the empty praise. No real applications mentioned.

[pawelduda]

Yes, nothing real, just some githubs and shopifys

[mpbart]

The yearly ruby release announcement getting to the top of hackernews every year certainly seems to imply that it’s not a dead language

[nonconstant]

It's not just the well-known GitHub, Shopify, Chime, Figma, Zendesk, Convertkit (Kit), Coinbase etc. See the "few" companies here, actively hiring Rubyists for no reason https://rubyonremote.com/remote-companies/ Square, Gitlab, Cisco, Figma, Instacart, Block, Calendly, 1password, and so on

[latexr]

> Nobody actually uses this since like 2018 but some people are paid to hype it up.

What’s the conspiracy theory here? Why would anyone be paying people to hype Ruby? What could possibly be the end goal?

[empthought]

> Why would anyone be paying people to hype Ruby? What could possibly be the end goal?

Hiring increasingly disinterested junior devs.