It was a niche for a time, but now it's way more a general purpose lang. Where it shines now is in it's width and depth. There are thousands of well documented

It was a niche for a time, but now it's way more a general purpose lang. Where it shines now is in it's width and depth. There are thousands of well documented libraries built by millions of dev's. If you want to do something; near anything, ruby has a gem for it. It's power today is that it is omni.