# Ruby on the rise in Brazil **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 23, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-the-rise-in-brazil/112861 "2007-08-23T23:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-the-rise-in-brazil/112861/1 "2007-08-23T23:41:10Z")
Developers in Brazil expect their use of the Ruby scripting language to double in the next year, according to an Evans Data Corp. survey of 400 developers in Brazil, China, India and Eastern Europe. Although roughly 16 percent of developers in Brazil use Ruby today, almost a third expect to use it next year. Of the emerging markets studied, Ruby use is currently strongest in China, with 20 percent of developers using it today. [http://www.tekrati.com/research/News.asp?id=9261](http://www.tekrati.com/research/News.asp?id=9261) ---
**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-the-rise-in-brazil/112861/2 "2007-08-24T18:24:25Z")
Hello, I’ve spent the last 12 months developing a relatively large system entirely in Ruby. We’re successfully using it in a production enviroment in our startup company called “mapaBRASIL”. It’s been a fantastic experience so far and I have no doubt that it will continue that way. Glad to be part of those statistics. Regards, Ricardo Amorim mapaBRASIL ---
**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-the-rise-in-brazil/112861/3 "2007-08-26T06:35:56Z")
On 8/23/07, zoat [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Ruby use is currently strongest in China, with 20 percent of > developers using it today. Ahem… OK, I asked my teammate in China if this number was anywhere near reality. His response was “merely a couple of orders of magnitude off”. Drawing conclusions is left as an exercise to the reader. ---
**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 7:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-the-rise-in-brazil/112861/4 "2007-08-26T07:21:57Z")
Alexey V. wrote: > > Ruby use is currently strongest in China, with 20 percent of > > developers using it today. > > Ahem… OK, I asked my teammate in China if this number was anywhere > near reality. His response was “merely a couple of orders of magnitude > off”. Drawing conclusions is left as an exercise to the reader. There’s lots of people in China, hence lots of them are programmers, hence…