Let me preface this by saying my favorite language is Clojure. I've been writing Ruby professionally for two years. Yes, there is truth to your perception. The

Let me preface this by saying my favorite language is Clojure. I've been writing Ruby professionally for two years. Yes, there is truth to your perception. The standard library is immature, the standard 1.8 VM is slow, and the language design has significant warts. There is no language spec, and they just keep adding new ways to do things. As of 1.8, there are 6 different ways to create a lambda expression. Each one acts slightly differently. There's yet another another in 1.9.