Still in the top 10 of RedMonk\u2019s language rankings, Ruby faces tough competition from Go, Rust, Swift, and Kotlin<\/b>
\nRuby has had a reputation as a user-friendly language for building web applications. But its slippage in this month\u2019s RedMonk Programming Language Rankings has raised questions about where exactly the language stands among developers these days.
The twice-yearly RedMonk index ranked Ruby at eighth, the lowest position ever for the language. \u201cSwift and now Kotlin are the obvious choices for native mobile development. Go, Rust, and others are clearer modern choices for infrastructure, \u201d said RedMonk analyst Stephen O\u2019 Grady. \u201cThe web, meanwhile, where Ruby really made its mark with Rails, is now an aggressively competitive and crowded field.\u201d
Although O\u2019 Grady noted that Ruby remains \u201ctremendously popular, \u201d participants on sites such as Hacker News and Quora have increasingly questioned whether Ruby is dying. In the Redmonk rankings, Ruby peaked at fourth place in 2013, reinforcing the perception is in decline, if a slow one.
The rankings were:
RedMonk\u2019s rankings are based on a formula that examines pull requests on GitHub as well as language discussions on Stack Overflow. The RedMonk rankings\u2019 methodolog differs from those used in the monthly Tiobe and PyPL language popularity rankings, which use formulas based on internet searches.<\/p>\n

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