Comment by CPLX

> now it is unfortunately also crawling behind perl into extinction. This is very unfortunate - I still use ruby almost daily as the ultimate glue language. But this can not be denied now that ruby is following the extinction path perl already had going some years before.

I'm pretty sure that can be denied.

Rails and Ruby (both separately and as a unit) is still absolutely huge. It's launching massive new releases regularly and still underpins a healthy chunk of the top websites on the planet (Shopify, GitHub, Airbnb, Twitch, Hulu, Kickstarter, Zendesk, Basecamp, Crunchbase, Dribbble etc etc) and is still taught to new developers as well.