The fact that a VSCode-based GPT-wrapper is being offered $3B tells you how desperate the LLM companies are.

Anthropic and xAI will also make similar acquisitions to increase their token usage.

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All Google apps icons do look very similar though.

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Yeah, it is. But is it growing or shrinking in the market share, that's the real question.

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One could argue that making tech decisions while completely ignoring popularity charts is more questionable.

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I corrected the mistake. It went from #10 to #5. Only language with such secular decline.

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Thanks. Corrected.

> Do you think there is no criteria worth considering besides the size of the hiring pool? What if 2 hiring pool are sufficiently big, do you still pick the bigger one every time?

It is not just a hiring pool. Look at various third-party SASS tools, they see Ruby as a second-grade language to support.

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As per GitHub's popularity chart, Ruby was the #5 language in 2014, and #10 in 2022 - https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

Starting a new commercial project/company in 2024 in Ruby is questionable.