After five years without programming in a language, one will inevitably forget syntax and/or concepts, that's not something specific to Ruby - there isn't a pre

After five years without programming in a language, one will inevitably forget syntax and/or concepts, that's not something specific to Ruby - there isn't a presence of "sharp corners" more than any other language. Actually, Ruby's selling point, during the golden times (I guess it was around the mid-2000s), was actually the simplicity and human friendliness of it. I guess (but it's hard to prove anything in this sense) that Python came out earlier as human-friendly scripting language (1991 vs. 1995), and Ruby didn't provide any killer feature - until Rails came out, but that caused Ruby to "be" Rails, while Python had other areas of application, for example operating system tools.