Mainly I think because of the scale it's used at, the things it's used for, and the people who use it. Technicalities are secondary to those factors. If Ruby

Mainly I think because of the scale it's used at, the things it's used for, and the people who use it. Technicalities are secondary to those factors. If Ruby was the only language that ran in the browser, you'd be writing the same rant about Ruby, no matter the stdlib.