As someone who directly worked on Ruby on Rails with developers, their worflows and deployments. It is far too niche to be viable in the mainstream and provides

As someone who directly worked on Ruby on Rails with developers, their worflows and deployments. It is far too niche to be viable in the mainstream and provides even less incentive to newer languages. But it is a fun language. Also latest Python is faster than the current Ruby let that sink in. You can go even faster if you do a compiled Python like PuPu.