No offense to Ruby, but if I were going to push people to change to a new language I would not recommend Ruby. It had its time of popularity and I feel like it's just a niche language now, surpassed by others.
> if I were going to push people to change to a new language I would not recommend Ruby
None of the alternatives except Go and Swift is new.
Ruby has turned into a robust boring technology, it does not mean it’s unworthy.
The Ruby team is still pushing the languages features and speeding up the runtime. Take a look at Ruby Ractors for example.
I do have to agree on that Ruby is more of a niche language now thanks to Rails but I’d say Ruby works very well for scripting and gluing together different systems.
From a memory safety perspective, I would say the same about python. The libraries that make it popular are all written in c++ to my knowledge. Anyone not already using python usually has better tools to choose from these days.
None of the alternatives except Go and Swift is new. Ruby has turned into a robust boring technology, it does not mean it’s unworthy.
The Ruby team is still pushing the languages features and speeding up the runtime. Take a look at Ruby Ractors for example.
I do have to agree on that Ruby is more of a niche language now thanks to Rails but I’d say Ruby works very well for scripting and gluing together different systems.