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Github is just another data point, but that's not how things look there at all: http://github.com/languages

I once asked a team leader, who had .net and PHP experience and was in the middle of a large Ruby On Rails project, what the benefits of Ruby and Ruby On Rails were. She could not think of a single one.

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Ruby and Rails both have their flaws, of course, but that's just silly.

Stated plainly, vs any static language, rapid development and easy metaprogramming. Vs PHP, a cleaner, saner language and a more rigorous, consistent and powerful object model and stack architecture.

Ruby and Rails both have their flaws, of course, but that's just silly.

I agree. I don't see how anyone who is both competent and familiar with all of the technologies mentioned would not be able to state a single advantage. It's a preposterous statement in an all around FUDdy article.

http://babel-programming.blogspot.com/2008/02/tiobe-index-is...

The knife is out for Ruby