The goal of Ruby 3x3 is to make Ruby 3 be 3 times faster than Ruby 2

All of you seem to be missing the fact that the point of the post is that there is a shared feeling that, was Ruby backed by some big companies now it would be as fast as the current competitors, so this, or something similar (a different kind of funding path) is what needs to happen. What the post also stresses is that we are seeing something move in this direction (hint: check the comments at the article page).

If you do a search for Ruby on HN, you will see not only has there been very little Ruby news posted in recent months, there are also less voted, and less likely to be on Front Page.

I am not sure if Ruby or Rails Ecosystem is dying. But for sure it is not even hyped any more. And if anything no one on HN seems to care or interested in it anymore.

If you want to make Ruby better, change the IO subsystem. Look towards Go and fork the language. It's the only path I see. Btw, I spent 8 years writing Ruby and would love to see that happen.

Cool! Sometimes I wonder how Crystal which is similar to Ruby can be fast. How Crystal can be fast?