Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break.
"programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."
In most programming languages, yes.
In Ruby? ...eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh.
Programming, not Ruby.