> Ruby has the potential for much more, but there doesn't seem to 
> be a problem domain where it truly excels.

Any place perl is used, ruby beats it with ease.

Personally I never understood people who claim to use the right tool for 
the right job is the proper thing - and using 20 different solutions to 
achieve this with archai unix solutions.


> On the client side Javascript seems to be the big winner. 

Ruby as a language - including practical and from a language design 
point of view - beats Javascript every time.

That Javascript is a web-browser language only is a huge disadvantage. I 
have yet to see gtk widgets in Javascript. In ruby, piece of cake.

> It is the plugin language for Firefox, and in the future it may 
> even become a standard choice for desktop software 
> development (with Adobe Air).

In the future it might conquer the world, but ruby is a better choice
until that day. And when that day comes, I want to use ruby instead of
javascript, even if this means that only other people who have
ruby can "benefit" from it - I guess writing perl or php can be
more annoying than writing in javascript, but javascript soon follows
these languages.

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