Ruby remains in relatively high demand, despite a decade of once a month blog posts claiming "Ruby is dead"
Ruby is as good as it ever was, it's just not shiny anymore.
And god, I remember the shiny. I remember when Ruby on Rails came in the scene, and the whole fuss about Basecamp and how influential 37Signals seemed to be back then. Time flies.
They both got major companies (Etsy, Shopify, Github, Gitlab, Airbnb,..) backing them and are not going away at this point.
Great choice if you are looking to get work done with a mature ecosystem and settle down..
What I want to know is if any variation of Algol is used in any production context today.