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Here's an interesting question to ponder:
What would it take to increase the size of the Ruby community by 10X?
What would it take to increase the size of the Ruby community by 10X?
I raise the question because I like Ruby and I want it to be around with a vibrant community for a super long time. A lot of people are talking about Ruby dying or the community shrinking, but I haven't seen anybody point out that we could conceivably GROW the Ruby community.
The best idea I have is that we could teach Ruby to more young people and indoctrinate them with the (true) belief that Ruby is a great language and is a viable choice for a lot of use cases. Those young people would carry that belief into the world and plant seeds.
Another theoretical option is just to turn more people into programmers. The world could use a lot more programmers. If we somehow taught 1m people to become devs and taught them all Ruby, that would obviously make the Ruby community way bigger.
Obviously there are constraints of reality that make that idea hard, but there's no theoretical reason why we couldn't do that, and there's places like Andela and Lambda making a programming education accessible to a higher proportion of the world's people.
