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Whatever problems the Ruby dev culture might have, being particularly _mean_ has never been one of them. There are probably people out there who would cite the renaming of this option in Rails (in 2014) as evidence that Ruby was "killed off" by "political correctness". (I don't see any truth in either position.)

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Ruby died after Sass matured and left the nest

I feel like Ruby usage slowed after all of the innovations from the rails era - convention over configuration/erb/haml/slim/activerecord/coffeescript/sass became mainstream and were adopted into all the various frameworks or into javascript itself. Good ideas deserve to be everywhere. That being said I dont think webdev is in a good place now or done evolving by a long shot.

Maybe Homebrew can hopefully one day do the same.

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