[contingencies]

I am pretty fluent in ruby, which I learned after PHP specifically because I wanted to migrate, and I really enjoy using it. However, compared to PHP ruby is slow, it took ages before it had a half-decent unicode solution, and once you step out of the rails rah-rah it's a bit desolate on quality libraries... there's 10 half-built versions of everything, and no decent go-to implementation. On the plus side, ruby is nominally better for reflective metaprogramming, but that's really a rare use case.