I'm aware of that. My comment was more about new startups at the time choosing Rails (and getting Ruby with it) with it being the reason why many startups in the list are built with Ruby, rather than an inherent strength of Ruby as a language. Rails did (does?) seem like a superior environment for quickly prototyping and launching web applications, and it's entirely possible nothing has supplanted it. My comment about future unicorns is mainly that Python might be dominant in AI or biotech focused startups, C# might be dominant in AR/VR startups, and more web applications are SPAs built mostly or entirely in JavaScript, so Ruby might have had it's day as people are building early tech in new fields.
> My comment about future unicorns is mainly that
> Python might be dominant in AI or biotech focused
> startups
That's rubbish. Why should python excel here in biotech
related aspects but ruby not?
Note: I am a molecular biologist by trade who went
into using ruby primarily. I also use python a lot.
I remember the old HUGO project; lots of that code was
written in perl. So why exactly would ruby be unfit here
but python would? Please give your EXACT reasons.
> so Ruby might have had it's day as people are
> building early tech in new fields.
I partially agree in regards to javascript; I disagree
that there ought to be a hype-buzzword trend. The whole
fake AI field ticks me off - they don't understand why
they can never achieve true intelligence, yet they keep
on claiming it. And people parrot how python will be
DOMINATING in the fake AI field. So many fakers.
How many of you guys actually even understand neurobiology?
