The State of Ruby 2019: Is It Dying?

There is a lot of discussion about the Ruby language demise. Well, this balderdash is circulating for a while now, and there are posts from 3+ years ago saying that Ruby is dead, but in fact, here we are. A shows that the Ruby interest over time isn’t decaying, but following the same pattern similar technologies are tracing. Also, always keep in mind that , and that is why there is no such thing as the best programming language. Google Trends search programming languages are tools to solve specific problems Ruby has gone through a lot of significant changes during the past year, and it is certainly not dying, but growing and evolving. The year of 2019 has a lot to the Ruby community. Check some of the key points below: Ruby 2.6 and its new JIT compiler A new version of Ruby has been released in December 2018. This release includes a lot of performance improvements and new features, including an initial implementation of a JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler. To say truly, this new JIT compiler has not achieved its best performance yet, as , but has a lot of future on it. The Ruby community considers this release as an opening to the . covered here new era of Ruby While I failed to make Ruby’s JIT production-ready in 2.6, I don’t regret what we’ve done this year. I needed to develop or lead all of the above things for Ruby 2.6, but I believe I can invest my time mainly on performance improvement in Ruby 2.7. — k0kubun Besides this new JIT compiler, this new release of Ruby has improved , apart from the . performance up to 1.7x 5–10% performance improvements from Ruby 2.5.0 Ruby on Rails new release is getting close . This release includes a lot of cool features that will get web development much easier, as Rails has been doing for years. Ruby on Rails 6 is close 2018 has brought a major release, Rails 5.2.x, that included: , a modern approach of uploading files straight to the cloud. Active Storage Redis cache-store HTTP/2 Early Hints , a new and secure way to store secrets Credentials And now, with Rails 6, there are a lot of exciting features, such as: , a new way to serve to to controller-like mailboxes for processing in Rails Action Mailbox route incoming emails , bringing the to the framework Action Text Trix editor allows you to parallelize your test using forks or threads Parallel testing, as the default JavaScript bundler Webpack Ruby isn’t dying, it’s maturing Yes, Ruby was bad and Rails was slow. But that is not true to say in 2018, and won’t be in 2019. Ruby isn’t slow and Rails does scale. If it doesn’t for you, maybe you’ve chosen the wrong tools for the problem you’ve got. In 2019, let’s enjoy programming Ruby 2.6 and Rails 6! Happy New Year! Follow me on and check : Twitter some of my other posts _The latest Tweets from Vinicius Brasil 👾 (@vnbrs_). Software developer, innovation geek, amateur musician, startups…_twitter.com Vinicius Brasil 👾 (@vnbrs_) | Twitter _Writing code that any programmer who read can understand is a must-have skill for software developers. The fact is…_hackernoon.com The Book Every Programmer Should Read _The way job recruitment works has changed. Your skills are far more valuable than your degrees. But how do you prove…_hackernoon.com How to Land a Job Using Open Source _There's a kind of developer that can harm a whole workplace because of their…_hackernoon.com Do not be this kind of developer