Ruby was one of many languages to spike in popularity due to being a novel way to approach programming, and everyone I know has moved on from it. But I find it very valuable for one-off scripts that are too complex to write in Bash. I actually used Ruby to compile my app's documentation from sources into a JSON file, and it was easy to update the Ruby code every time I added more features or needed to change how the documentation was generated. It let me write it in a mostly functional way without being too confusing, and it was already installed on my system. But for web apps, no way am I choosing Ruby. I've moved on to Node.js from Ruby years ago, and haven't looked back. Modern JavaScript is much more "clean" than Ruby to me.

my concern with ruby. is difficult to see the next feature or what the core devs are planning. You have to allways follow: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org, there is no clear process.

Also, I would like to see the new language changes use more in ruby.

Is a shame that ruby has features that other languages use as super crazy amazing, magical way of doing stuff.

Also, I would like to see it faster, I would like fibers to become more visible to ruby community.

Is a shame that ruby is not in the ML/AI/NLP as other languages. I see people complain about ruby, and how python is the golden boy of languages, but I totally dont like stuff like `__wow__`, `method(self, stuff):`, `@amazing_annotation`, `:= stuff` here, `[for x in y if]`, no so much functional stuff, class with uppercase and other with lowercase. sorry for my rant :)