Comment by UncleOxidant

I'm trying to remember why Ruby fell out of favor ~10 years ago. I don't think it was all down to performance because it was mostly on par with Python. I seem to recall that it came down to community practices that were a little too freewheeling - widespread monkey patching, etc. and these had become reflected in Ruby's flagship product (Rails). (I used to do a lot of Ruby programming in the 2001-2010 timeframe and like the language, but it's mostly been Python since then)