I still enjoy writing Ruby, and while I consider myself a rather rudimentary programmer, I do regular exercises to maintain my skill in Ruby so that I can use i

I still enjoy writing Ruby, and while I consider myself a rather rudimentary programmer, I do regular exercises to maintain my skill in Ruby so that I can use it to get things done. For many years, Perl was my go-to language for getting things done, and Ruby has fully supplanted that. For some of the things I used to reach for Ruby to do, I now use Go, but for the most part it's now all Ruby. One of the things I love about Ruby is that you can do very powerful things with minimal code, while still having it be understandable. The way metaprogramming works in particular is fantastic. I also like that Ruby provides an escape hatch to do horrible but necessary things (backticks), which lets me utilize existing hacky scripts and build upon them, without needing to rewrite everything to include it.