The blog post (and Ruby's) emphasis on programmer happiness really resonates with me: other than Rust (which induces programmer happiness for fairly different reasons), I've seldom run into a programming language and ecosystem that tries so hard to make programming mirthful.
(Does that make Ruby a good programming language? That's unclear to me; what's clear is that I have fun writing it.)
(Does that make Ruby a good programming language? That's unclear to me; what's clear is that I have fun writing it.)