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Ruby is #5 most used and #3 most loved programming language in the Pragmatic Engineer survey 2025: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng...

It means that basically, Ruby is huge in the SF Bay thanks to its adoption by startup founders, but it is a lot less popular outside of the Bay Area.

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Which is not a bad thing. If at least a few of those startups become big they could sustain the Ruby community with jobs and sponsorship, like Shopify and GitHub do today.

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> If at least a few of those startups become big they could sustain the Ruby community with jobs and sponsorship,

This is the one thing that most developers dont understand when ever we talk about Ruby ( or any programming languages ). The economics of a programming language, you could hate Objective-C all you want but Apple could force people to program in it as long as they hold the 1 billion Active iPhone with 60% to 70% of Apps store spending and online purchasing power.

Edit: The one way to make Ruby popular. Make the best blogging, forums and Wiki software open source and fight the hell out of it for market share. These three category make up a lot of current third party Web consumption usage without being held by big tech.