I think Ruby can have some nice parts to reading it. e.g.

    10.times do
      puts “Hello”
    end

or

    send_email if user.unconfirmed?

Compared to ES6 as an example:

    Array.from(Array(10)).forEach((_, _i) => {
      console.log(“Hello”);
    });

Ooph, not the strongest showing by comparison. There isn’t a huge issue with it, but it is having to use a lot more indirection to express the main idea. Languages like Python get closer to that expressiveness as well, but I think Ruby goes even farther in the direction of expressive choice.

I don’t write Ruby anymore. But there were some nice things that I miss sometimes when using other languages. Sometimes I want to express a very simple idea that, while still readable, gets wrapped in brackets, parens, variable declarations, and type declarations to a point where it looks more intimidating and unapproachable than it actually is.