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Those are relative positions. We can't talk about a "nosedive" from that. It may be the case, but also maybe Ruby was just the slowest growing out of a number of languages growing in popularity. We don't have enough data from there.



> since ruby is a language that is less and less used by many programmers

But this statement from thread starter is about Ruby's relative position.

If Ruby's rank in top-used language ranking drops, then we can say that the language is less used by programmers in the survey pool.


> thread starter is about Ruby's relative position.

I guess we disagree on that part.




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