The article significantly misses the mark by treating Ruby as nothing more than Rails — a perspective that currently detracts from the language. The author clearly hasn't explored the strong features of Ruby 3. Not to mention, it's a very nice language to learn as an entry point into programming.
Ruby is incredibly versatile: NASA has used it for simulation, it's a popular choice for scripting, DevOps automation, and static site generation. It's a simple, dynamic language ideal for quickly prototyping solutions.
Elixir, however, is a separate conversation. Having used it in production for years, I can attest that the ecosystem is fantastic. Its lack of mainstream popularity doesn't matter; its true strength lies in the BEAM, an incredibly well-architected piece of software. Elixir is simply a great way to access that power. Beyond its Ruby-like syntax, it has become its own distinct entity. It used to exist mainly as a alternative to erlang but it's become its own thing in recent years.
I really hate language-based dogma, every virtually every programming language has place as a tool in in a programmer's tool belt. There is even value in learning and using deprecated languages because doing so gives you a perspective beyond whatever ecosystem that you're currently tied to. There is a reason that languages like fortran and lisp have persisted as meaningful choices in certain domains and I suspect that Ruby will stick around for a very long time.
Scoop is the main package manager I've been using for years on windows apart from chocolatey. Dunno many others aside from the official windows one: winget.
Ruby is incredibly versatile: NASA has used it for simulation, it's a popular choice for scripting, DevOps automation, and static site generation. It's a simple, dynamic language ideal for quickly prototyping solutions.
Elixir, however, is a separate conversation. Having used it in production for years, I can attest that the ecosystem is fantastic. Its lack of mainstream popularity doesn't matter; its true strength lies in the BEAM, an incredibly well-architected piece of software. Elixir is simply a great way to access that power. Beyond its Ruby-like syntax, it has become its own distinct entity. It used to exist mainly as a alternative to erlang but it's become its own thing in recent years.
I really hate language-based dogma, every virtually every programming language has place as a tool in in a programmer's tool belt. There is even value in learning and using deprecated languages because doing so gives you a perspective beyond whatever ecosystem that you're currently tied to. There is a reason that languages like fortran and lisp have persisted as meaningful choices in certain domains and I suspect that Ruby will stick around for a very long time.