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>I feel that in many ways ruby is also way too japanese centric. This is fine for a language that is only used in Japan, but a language should have no real country-focus per se, it should be usable everywhere without constraint.

I've never heard this argument before. How exactly is it Japanese centric?

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Most of the interesting things happening in the Ruby space other than Rails are Japanese...

Mruby for example (embeddable Ruby). It's used a bunch by Japanese game studios in place of say, Lua, but it's nearly impossible to find any information about how to use it in English.

The largest non-Rails focused Ruby convention also happens in Japan.

I don’t think the language itself is Japanese centric. In the past the discussions among the language development often happened in Japanese, but I don’t think it’s the case anymore (though I don’t follow it closely) since there are a lot of international core language contributors now

Historically - like, way back - a lot of the Ruby core chatter happened on a japanese mailing list, and that's where a lot of decisions ended up taking place, or it wasn't uncommon to have sudden hard subjects bombdrop on the english side while a lot of discussion already happened on the mailing list already so it was hard to catch up.

These days it seems like bugs.ruby-lang.org has most of the chatter.

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