Rumors of Ruby’s DemisePeriodically someone on the Internet becomes aware of concurrency-oriented programming languages like Erlang or Scala, and climbs up the bell tower to sound the “is Ruby dying” bell. This topic came up on Parley recently. A few people asked me to post my reply publicly, so here it is, with some embellishments. First though, a disclaimer of sorts: it’s perfectly reasonable to suspect me of having a
