2. faster as speed or development? Gem ecosystem in Ruby makes it super fast to develop stuff, I'm not sure is there any ecosystem that rich with up to date libraries.
Pretty much every ecosystem has a package manager and ecosystem, I don't think Ruby is anything unique here.
Of course you could reply about the quality of packages, but first, that's moving the goalposts, and second, why would the Ruby ecosystem be any better?
“Largest” and “most likely to have what going_to_800 needs in practice” are not the same thing.
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