> But due to the negative factors in the Ruby community I would not advise anyone to learn Ruby as their first language because of the great risk of becoming a

> But due to the negative factors in the Ruby community I would not advise anyone to learn Ruby as their first language because of the great risk of becoming a first-language fanboy. Perhaps that danger is very situational. In my surroundings Rails/Ruby is not the hottest thing anymore, but we work with it for generally well-considered reasons. I was introduced to Rails at this company, and never had any illusions of it being the end-all of frameworks and Ruby that of languages, as none of my 'mentor' coders at the company did either. But in my general surroundings I can definitely imagine high rates of fanboyism.