Tim Bray: Ruby is the Leading Language for Web Applications

A pretty while ago in fact (Apr 2008), i wonder what the status is right now..
"In his keynote talk at the recent Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, Sun’s Tim Bray asserted that “PHP and Ruby are the languages of choice for new web apps.” Coming from most people, this wouldn’t be a remarkable comment, but given that Tim is Sun’s director of web technologies, it is worthy of note. Java wasn’t even on Tim’s list, much less his recommended solution."
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