> I don't hear much about Ruby and Groovy lately They've been overtaken by Python and Kotlin, respectively, as developers' first choice of programming language

> I don't hear much about Ruby and Groovy lately They've been overtaken by Python and Kotlin, respectively, as developers' first choice of programming language. Kotlin even runs on Android and natively, whereas Apache Groovy is limited to the JVM. > I ran into trouble with Ruby's handling of unicode Ruby's developed mainly in Japan, and Japan's the last holdout in the world against the widespread use of Unicode.