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Let's be honest, if it weren't for Rails Ruby would be forgotten nowadays.

Right now Ruby is a language used to maintain legacy Rails systems.



The majority of the world's Ruby programmers are in Japan, where it's used for a whole lot more than building Rails apps. So Ruby isn't going anywhere, although it may become a curiosity in the West over time.




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