Comment by shevy-java

Agreed. Lua is older though. It was created in 1993.

mruby was created in 2012.

I have only two gripes with regard to mruby.

1) The primary users are C hackers. That's ok, but it means it also leaves out many other people. (Lua has the same problem of course.)

2) Documentation. This is something that really plagues about 90% of ruby projects. And it's not getting any better. It is as if in ruby, only 10% care about documentation - at best. Look at rack, opal, wasm for ruby - the documentation is TOTAL TRASH. Non-existing; look at rack. What a joke.

Now that ruby is following perl in its extinction path (sorry, the numbers are hard and real, there is no way to deny it), the ruby community should instead try to reverse that trend. Instead you see mega-corporations such as shopify pwning the remaining ecosystem and cannibalizing on it or people such as DHH rant about how Europe is collapsing (what the actual ... https://world.hey.com/dhh/europe-is-weak-and-delusional-but-... - we need an alternative to rails, how can anyone still work with DHH? Lo and behold, another shopify guy. The message is so clear for everyone to see now). None of this will of course revitalize ruby. Without an active AND actively growing community, ruby is set to die. I say this as someone who still uses ruby daily; I am tired of the "rumours of ruby dying are exaggerated". Yes, the rumours are exaggerated - but they are not rumours. The numbers are solid. TIOBE alone, with its 10000 faults, shows this trend clearly.