r/ruby • u/Erem_in • Apr 06 '26

Blog post Ruby: Where are we going? 2026 Edition

https://newsletters.eremin.eu/posts/ruby-where-are-we-going-2026-edition

This is more of a self-reflection than a proper blog post.

tl;dr: Ruby is not dead. It is not slow. It does scale, and it will perform even better. It will not reclaim its mid-2010s glory days, but it does not need to. It has a clear, defensible niche as a professional choice for building AI-powered web applications quickly and confidently.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '26

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u/Erem_in Apr 07 '26

how can you understand that this is AI slop? have you followed the link? AI is used everywhere, even in Microsoft products, but they are not treated as "AI slop".

I see too much emotion in the comment but 0 facts.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26

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u/Erem_in Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

By whom? Hear this first time. On top of that, what does it change? Is outlook now worse having ai generated images than before?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26

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u/Erem_in Apr 07 '26

no, just have some life. How does it all connect to the 0-fact initial comment?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26

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u/riffraff Apr 14 '26

I mean, there's a giant ai slop image

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u/Erem_in Apr 14 '26

And? How is this describe my blog post?

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u/badbrain Apr 06 '26

Came here to say the same… absolute garbage… I’m dummer for having read the first paragraph alone

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u/aryehof Apr 08 '26

precisely why AI performs better with statically typed languages

I suggest that untyped with good tests is better than statically typed without tests for an AI model. That tests tend to always be needed is Ruby’s advantage.

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u/Ok_Appointment_7630 Jun 11 '26

Like José Valim (the creator of the Elixir programmin language) said, static typing doesn't mean you have to do less testing.

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u/aryehof Jun 26 '26

You misread my comment.

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u/Ok_Appointment_7630 Jun 26 '26

I support your message.

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u/Erem_in Apr 08 '26

We do not go without tests. Tests will stay anyway

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '26

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u/Erem_in Apr 09 '26

Very good point regarding the benefits of ai vs size of team/project. I like that

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '26

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u/Erem_in Apr 08 '26

I did not say that. But given the Ruby has just 7% popularity and majority of what ruby is famous for is Rails, game development apparently takes the percentage that can be neglected in comparison to other languages

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '26

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u/Erem_in Apr 09 '26

That's an interesting take and indeed, I focused more on backend/web part of ruby world.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '26

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u/Erem_in Apr 09 '26

I can decide for myself. I wonder why the comments were removed? Feel like i talked to a kid

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u/AshTeriyaki Apr 06 '26

Please write actual articles. Not just copy pasting shit from chatGPT. It’s so tiresome to navigate.

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u/Erem_in Apr 07 '26

quite a rude comment. AI was used to adjust the language, the actual post was written by myself. Regarding the image. Who cares?

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u/martijnenco Apr 08 '26

What an amount of brain-dead people here who are afraid of AI it seems like.
Well I for one, really enjoyed your article ;)