Ruby has the highest ceiling for clean, elegant, and expressive solutions to problems in any language I’ve ever seen. For small teams of (one or two) highly-exp

Ruby has the highest ceiling for clean, elegant, and expressive solutions to problems in any language I’ve ever seen. For small teams of (one or two) highly-experienced programmers with compatible vision, you can produce truly incredible programs. It also has the lowest floor. With the usual makeup of teams of frequently-rotating mostly-junior engineers who don’t have the experience, understanding, and restraint to use Ruby’s more… let’s call them idiosyncratic features, the sheer volume of completely inscrutable crap that can be put out in a given amount of time is truly breathtaking.