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I use Ruby without rails all the time. It’s extremely convenient for shell scripting (basically anywhere I might have used Perl in the past).

The Sequel gem (rather than ActiveRecord) and the Parallel gem play really well together. Anytime I need to do some scripting against a database it’s very convenient.

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> It’s extremely convenient for shell scripting (basically anywhere I might have used Perl in the past).

Exactly the uses cases that I want to "steal" from Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.

Not because Next Generation Shell is "better" but because it's focused on the use cases - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/Use-Cases ... while still being a "real" programming language.

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