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No language ever dies, so talking about Rails disappearing is nonsense.

On the other hand, the interest in it is simply declining, and consistently so (check out the Google trends post above).

> Ruby is finally improving it’s static analysis, async and threading weaknesses.

They're great things (not sure if with "static analysis" you refer to static typing), although threading will never be realistically adopted, giving the 25+ years long history of thread-unsafety (both in terms of library and culture).



> not sure if with "static analysis" you refer to static typing

I was thinking more like AST based tools, although static typing is very helpful.

I think we've discussed threading stuff before, I take your points but I'm still hopeful to see how things pan out in the next few years.




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