> most importantly, if we all got in the same room, would I want to hang out with the people excited about this language?
Interesting, I wouldn't even thought someone could consider it a criterium for a language choice. Now I wonder if most people care about it like you do.
A huge part of the reason that people love Ruby even when there's so many Elixirs/Elms/Crystals/a hundred more around is simple: it's a community full of nice, smart, interesting people with varied interests that extend beyond coding.
> it's a community full of nice, smart, interesting people
Isn't everyone describing the community they belong as such? I have yet to meet someone advertising his programming language of choice with “the community is full of morons, join us!”…
Interesting, I wouldn't even thought someone could consider it a criterium for a language choice. Now I wonder if most people care about it like you do.