[MrBra]

Exactly. People is on Ruby because of its semplicity to test ideas and craft things. That's the same reason so many devs started using Rails.

So, one immediate solution that would drive again Ruby to a stellar embracement and adoption could be preserving, in development, this immensely useful hyper-reflective environment which gives us hyper productivity and then have a parallel production environment where all of this is stripped down and code compiled without it.

In the wait for better solutions this could be a possible path, and I am sure a lot of people and software in the Ruby ecosystem would still prefer to adapt to this, rather than having to code in a more performant but ugly language.