Ruby is quite practical. It has a decent standard library (so you don't waste tons of time evaluating/choosing libraries for basic things) and has a simple pac

Ruby is quite practical. It has a decent standard library (so you don't waste tons of time evaluating/choosing libraries for basic things) and has a simple package management story with bundler, which separates what libraries you want (Gemfile) from what specific versions you happen to be using (Gemfile.lock).