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Ruby Won the AI Benchmark. Is It Dying Anyway?
AI agents write code in whatever language the training data favors, and that's reshaping which programming languages survive. This episode digs into the numbers behind the decline: Ruby's abandoned long tail, Scala's diaspora, MATLAB falling out of the TIOBE top twenty, and PHP's quiet replacement by Go in new projects. But there's a counter-current — a benchmark where Ruby actually beat Python and TypeScript on speed and cost, and a developer who got Claude Code to extend a Perl project rather than port it. Two forces are pulling in opposite directions: consolidation toward a handful of…
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