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> 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.