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Fantastic language for like, personal use random scripting, exploratory work, glue type stuff. It has a large and consistent standard library and third party packages for most things. The community generally values testing, good documentation, and easy-to-pick up APIs.

It's probably not going to be like career-defining or anything at this point. But if the other languages you know are strongly optimized for specific use cases and you're looking for a broadly useful language for other things, it's as good as any and better than most at that.

Also the joke that "if you speak english and know any other programming language you know ruby" is like, half true. It's a big language with a lot of nuance but the basics are easy to pick up.




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