Is Ruby Dying?

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @08:11AM from the netcraft-confirms-it dept.

New submitter John Moses writes "I have been working with node.js a lot lately, and have been discussing with co-workers if node.js is taking steam away from Ruby at all. I think the popularity of the language is an important talking point when selecting a language and framework for a new project. A graph on the release date of gems over time could help determine an answer. The front page of RubyGems only shows data on the most popular, but I am really interested in seeing recent activity. My theory is that if developers' contributions to different gems is slowing down, then so is the popularity of the language."

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Re:Short answer: no by shutdown+-p+now · 2013-12-24 11:13 · Score: 5, Informative

the compiler is free to rearrange the order of the fields as it sees fit.
No, it is not. ISO/IEC 9899:1999, 6.7.2.1 "Structure and union specifiers", paragraph 13:
"Within a structure object, the non-bit-field members and the units in which bit-fields reside have addresses that increase in the order in which they are declared. A pointer to a structure object, suitably converted, points to its initial member (or if that member is a bit-field, then to the unit in which it resides), and vice versa. There may be unnamed padding within a structure object, but not at its beginning."
The C++ standard has a similar provision. What's unspecified is whether there is any padding between the fields.