I use ruby a ton here and there for little utilities. It's certainly useful enough and well supported enough, you can run it in Lambda natively, the language is

I use ruby a ton here and there for little utilities. It's certainly useful enough and well supported enough, you can run it in Lambda natively, the language is very readable and well suited to many purposes, especially around string and data manipulation; clarity is king and it nails it for me. I seldom have to go and look up anything to be able to just type it, which I've found to be a hard point to get to in many languages (e.g. used PHP for years back in the day and would forever be looking up parameter orders for functions due to the lack of a good IDE and sane conventions).