People have this bias that Ruby only used with Rails. Yes, Rails made it popular in the first place, but it has overgrown it. Other than data science/machine le

People have this bias that Ruby only used with Rails. Yes, Rails made it popular in the first place, but it has overgrown it. Other than data science/machine learning (because of the lack of libraries/frameworks) Ruby used in all over the place, just like Python. Ruby basically ruled the DevOps space before Go and still very relevant. Yes, Python is winning the popularity battle no doubt on that, but that nothing to do to the language or the surrounding tooling itself. It's like saying VHS is an incredible format compare to Betamax(Yes I'm old :D). I used Ruby (not Rails) and Python for many years by now. I think Ruby and its tooling are far better than Python's. But if anybody asked me which language should they learn as their first, it would be Python, just because there will be more jobs available.