Ruby or Python?

use pypy faggot

Still not nearly as fast for real life code. Not remotely. Same goes for everything JRuby9000/Graal-based.

Care to elaborate?

I still have no idea what Ruby really is and why it's used or semi-popular, what it's good/bad at, etc. In my 20 years of coding, it's just never came up.

You know, I've heard just the opposite. When I met with a tech recruiter, he told me "no matter what language you are know, we can find a job for you. Except Ruby. There are too many people who know learned Ruby and not enough jobs."

Could just be a regional thing, though. Like maybe some local trade school program pumping out underqualified Ruby programmers or something.