It's understandable that respondents who have only used Ruby for this or that (scripting or Rails) might be unaware of other uses for it, but their lack of experience doesn't amount to a general or objectively-meaningful assessment IMO. What's less understandable to me is that a simple, practical, and broadly useful tool such as Ruby would be superseded by the likes of JavaScript. OTOH historically marketshare has not always gone to the "best" tool in a given category. Think Betamax vs. VHS or Microsoft Windows vs. OS/2.
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It's understandable that respondents who have only used Ruby for this or that (scripting or Rails) might be unaware of other uses for it, but their lack of experience doesn't amount to a general or objectively-meaningful assessment IMO. What's less understandable to me is that a simple, practical, and broadly useful tool such as Ruby would be superseded by the likes of JavaScript. OTOH historically marketshare has not always gone to the "best" tool in a given category. Think Betamax vs. VHS or Microsoft Windows vs. OS/2.