Comment by timewizard

That's not a serious question. Of course people do. Your inability to understand the language does not impact anyone else other than yourself. This should go without saying.

I'm also an expert in C, Go and JavaScript. Ruby is an excellent language and the smalltalk paradigm has some real strengths especially for duck typed systems. The only reason I don't use it more often is because it is slow for the type of work I'm doing recently.

It was amazing for web work and it's fantastic for writing small little utility scripts.

A open distaste for things does not make you sophisticated or smart. You're not in any category of high repute when you do this.