Two things happened this week that don’t look related until you squint: VS Code ripped AI agents out of its own process, and Ruby quietly kept winning the argument it wasn’t supposed to still be having with Python. Click through both.
July 24, 20267 min interactive read2 demos
shed@devops: ~/agent-host-walkthrough
Editor Process
renderer · UI · extensions
— AHP —
Agent Host Process
isolated · sandboxed
shed@lang-wars: ~/pick-your-stack
Pick a use case — the comparison updates below.
Show the YJIT 3.4 benchmark (interpreter vs. JIT)
CRuby interpreter — baseline
YJIT 3.4 — +0%
TIOBE rank
#24
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TIOBE weights search-engine mentions. Python’s ubiquity as “the” beginner and AI language crowds out search share — it measures buzz, not usage.
RedMonk rank
#9
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RedMonk correlates GitHub repos with Stack Overflow questions — actual code being written and actual devs getting unstuck. By that measure Ruby is comfortably top-10.
Avg. Ruby salary (2026)
$134k
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Fintech, SaaS, and e-commerce shops keep paying up for Rails expertise — Shopify and GitHub alone represent millions of lines of production Ruby.
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