[slrz]

Well, I've never encountered an ecosystem before where it is so totally painful to install and maintain programs coming from there. It's not necessarily the language but the community mindset that doesn't seem to care one tiny bit about backwards compatibility.

Say I want to run two programs an a server, both written in Ruby. Those programs depend on a bunch of libraries. Ok, so I go on and just install those libraries. WRONG. The programs need specific versions of those libraries (both of which differ from the one coming with my Linux distro) and there's no single library version that works with both of them. To make things worse, one program needs a different version of the Ruby interpreter than the other. Only one of those is included in the Linux distribution I'm running.

So instead of being able to (at least partially) rely on the maintenance done by my Linux distro, I'd have to maintain my own Ruby interpreters and libraries. Yeah, right.

For that reason I consider running Ruby programs a liability. Sure, you have to deal with stuff like that everywhere but I never encountered an ecosystem where things are that bad and things break with any other update. I've heard the Javascript/Node people do an equally crappy job but I'm not going to find out personally.

So while I saw a couple of quite nice things written in Ruby, we're not going to use them if their maintenance is such a pain.