On: Ruby is dying -- and the graph to prove it.

[nickb]

Heh, fallacy with that chart is that it's tracking only MRI. There are many Ruby implementations in various stages of progress.

[mechanical_fish → nickb]

Fallacy B is pretending that the rate at which the interpreter is patched is some sort of measure of a language's quality, or of its community's health. As if the goal of a language designer wasn't to reach the point where the core was stable. As if running the risk of breaking existing code was a good thing.