Perl's decline was cultural

I don't get why Ruby is mentioned before PHP. The only Ruby thing I've ever come across is GitLab, and not with positive associations either - up until maybe 3, 4 years ago particularly Sidekiq was a constant point of utter pain.

I was surprised by that, too, and assumed it was a decade-old article until I saw the date at the bottom. Both being mentioned before Python is wilder, as is the total exclusion of JavaScript.

JavaScript on the backend is a rare thing to see, even in "resume driven development" scenarios it's usually some sort of static build that gets pushed to S3 or whatever.

Are you time traveling from 1998, when AOL acquired Netscape and sidelined Livewire?

Node.js is the most popular web framework/technology in the StackOverflow developer survey. Express is more popular than FastAPI, Django, Flask and Rails in the same survey. Just... what are you talking about?

I suspect it's because Ruby's ability to deal with strings is so heavily influenced by Perl.

When I first started using Ruby after years of Perl, it felt familiar but everything was just more... sensible.