While I write most of my scripts in Ruby and enjoy doing so, there is one gripe I have with it: its slow start-up time.
On my machine, running an empty Ruby script takes about 100ms, compared to <10ms for Python, Perl, Lua, Bash.
One can mitigate the problem somewhat using the `--disable-gems` flag, but that's not a good general solution.
I found an old Reddit thread also hinting at bad start-up times: https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/aqxepw/rubys_startup_....