What Active Rubyists Are Using in 2026: A Maintainer's Read of the RubyKaigi Survey - DEV Community

kept by eddie jul 02

A maintainer's analysis of RubyKaigi 2026 survey data reveals that Ruby 4.0 adoption matches 3.4 within six months, Claude Code dominates at 80% usage, and VS Code/Cursor lead editors while mise/asdf challenge rbenv.

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