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It's possible that some of us are looking through the headlines, and saving them for reading at a later time.

The fact that the story gets voted up is a consequence of this, perhaps.

Very good point.

Well, the author is a YC alumnus who runs a cloud-based RoR hosting service... not saying that this means we HN'ers should upvote on the basis of appeal to authority.

He's not whining but saying "it's the start of a new era". Read the full article not just the first paragraph.

No whining in the article I read. Which one did you read?

I was thinking something similar: if "not fun" means "Ruby is becoming a stable, documented, performant language that can be used for real work" then I, for one, welcome our new adult overlords.

(Of course, there's still a long way to go until those criteria are satisfied, so I suppose it's still somewhat fun. Maybe not dance-around-naked-with-a-lampshade-on-your-head fun, but then, Zed's moved on...)