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Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
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You forgot about the lack of static type hints. That's a serious flaw.
If you ignore the performance and lack of static types, then I don't think there's too much wrong with Ruby but apart from Rails there isn't really a compelling reason to use it over Python either. And that's not saying much!