Artoo: Ruby on Robots
Ruby has put food on my table for the better part of the last fifteen years and there's a lot I love about the language. But it also feels increasingly unlikely that it will escape the Rails ecosystem to any significant extent. In the dynamic language space Javascript seems unstoppable and with the ES6 and ES7 features and vastly better performance I don't see much advantage in sticking with Ruby in the long run other than the excellent Gem ecosystem. And for larger codebases I think opt-in typing a-la Typescript is a huge win.<p>I'll always applaud creative projects like this but I'm not optimistic about the longer term health of Ruby at this point.