> if I were going to push people to change to a new language I would not recommend Ruby None of the alternatives except Go and Swift is new. Ruby has turned in

> if I were going to push people to change to a new language I would not recommend Ruby None of the alternatives except Go and Swift is new. Ruby has turned into a robust boring technology, it does not mean it’s unworthy. The Ruby team is still pushing the languages features and speeding up the runtime. Take a look at Ruby Ractors for example. I do have to agree on that Ruby is more of a niche language now thanks to Rails but I’d say Ruby works very well for scripting and gluing together different systems.