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Seconded. Ruby has tons of syntax and is a much more complicated language to learn than Javascript.

Also Rails is non-trivial these days. I picked up rails back in pre-1.0, and followed it closely until around 2.3. It's way more nuanced than it used to be, and I'd imagine someone could find it very difficult to "pick up."




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