At 30 years old, is Ruby in a mid-life crisis or a renaissance?

Ruby’s creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), released the first public version of the programming language in December 1995, making Ruby just shy of its 30th birthday. It spread across Japanese-language Usenet newsgroups, a popular way of exchanging conversation and media before the World Wide Web, and then reached broader communities throughout the late 1990s.
This was thanks to Ruby’s friendly community and, in no small part, thanks to Matz. (The community has a mott...