Indeed, I think I really share this view. Ruby is the only programming language I've ever used where I didn't feel like I was fighting it, or struggling to exp

Indeed, I think I really share this view. Ruby is the only programming language I've ever used where I didn't feel like I was fighting it, or struggling to express what I wanted. It was easy to express complex behaviours and data structures without reams or syntactic or structural noise. But yes – despite that, there was a lot of shoddy and poorly performing code out there. The ecosystem never saw the kind of massive investment that JS (for example) did, so performance was always lacklustre, and I'd particularly love optional typing. Still, there are other options now for specific use-cases, which is good.