As someone who prefers Ruby to Python I lament the odd coincidence that Ruby, the language most strongly influenced by Perl, seems to be suffering the same fate

As someone who prefers Ruby to Python I lament the odd coincidence that Ruby, the language most strongly influenced by Perl, seems to be suffering the same fate as its predecessor - fiddling while Rome burns. Ruby needs 3x3 yesterday to compete with all the languages that are eating its lunch but I doubt if we'll see it before 2020. Worst case scenario is Ruby 3x3 turning into another Perl 6.