I am American, and remember the first I heard of Ruby was in '99/2000-ish. I didn't get into it but it sounded interesting. It was presented as a smalltalk-like language with good interop with C, or even objc for OS X apps. Pretty similar to the niches that Python fills.
Then it seemed like one day some years later, a very faddish, I will be blunt, charlatan type seemed to dominate that discussion. This is the type that confuses ruby with rails, git with github, the internet with the web. They are using ruby in the same way that the old ASP crowd would have used Visual Basic.
I was never involved in any of this, just watching from the sidelines, but it does seem like a bit of a shame.
Then it seemed like one day some years later, a very faddish, I will be blunt, charlatan type seemed to dominate that discussion. This is the type that confuses ruby with rails, git with github, the internet with the web. They are using ruby in the same way that the old ASP crowd would have used Visual Basic.
I was never involved in any of this, just watching from the sidelines, but it does seem like a bit of a shame.