Do you mean you believe that people using Ruby are either Ruby committers, or people with only pure Ruby experience? If this is true, I think you'll miss some

Do you mean you believe that people using Ruby are either Ruby committers, or people with only pure Ruby experience? If this is true, I think you'll miss some great candidates, to be honest. Things I did before, for instance, include: - writing real-time 2D/3D rendering engines, mixing C++, TurboPascal, Asm - low-level assembly code, writing keyboard hardware interrupt handlers, TSR, video-cards tweaking etc - porting C-libraries from Solaris to Windows - writing a full GUI toolkit - writing 2D games - wrapping C and C++ libraries into .Net - writing a cluster of satellite images processing with PVM Etc (apart from using Java, .Net, Ruby, CoffeeScript etc). To make my point clear: the good rubyists I know have a lot of past experience, similar to this. Talking about "cesspit" is not giving good signals about how you consider other technical choices, either :-)