Comment Re:Typo... (Score 1) 400
What makes you think that this was intentional and not just a typo?
Your agenda. Your post is clearly biased on defending Ruby.
Interestingly I do not have an agenda on Ruby and in fact it was a simple typo. As a non-native speaker I find the way how names and compounds are handled in the English language confusing at best. It's much easier in German: all compounds are written in one single word, no spaces, no dashes. You're allowed to add dashes to make life for the reader easier (Atombombenzündmechanismus is not a handy word).
That would be Ok, we're all biased somehow - but experience taught me that tech people has a strong inclination to include lies and fallacies while arguing on subjects he/she has a bias on.
Isn't it ironic that your own post represents a fallacy? Of course I have the arrogance to assume that I know best which motives my original post was based on -- and which not.
"Javascript" is a word massively disseminated - very improbable that one professional that makes a living in this field would misspell this word the way you did.
See, indeed I am a CS professional. I've specialized in HPC. The way I use Ruby is very different from what the web folks use it for: thanks to Puppet Ruby has become a popular language for managing system configuration, especially for large scale deployments. Hence I do have a significant exposure to Ruby, without ever doing any serious JS coding. And that's what I criticize in TFA: it seems to equate Ruby with "language for web apps". Its argument revolves around "b/c of node.js becoming popular, Ruby is/might be dying". And that's just wrong because even if Rails would just disappear, there would still be tons of valid use cases for Ruby (text mangling, build automation, rapid prototyping, network automation...).
If fact I don't care much about whether Ruby is popular or not. I've used it before Rails was popular, and I wouldn't have any second thoughts about adding another language to my portfolio, should I see any major benefit in it.