I am more curious why you actually care? Are you doing Ruby coding for living? This seems the only valid reason.

I love Ruby, I write a lot of tools in it. When I need extras, I extend Ruby using C. Its easy to do and very clean. I even write simple GUI stuff in Ruby, because why not?

And I dont really care if Ruby is loved or not. Its Open Source. I made backup of all stuff I care about. Its easy to just rebuild if necessary :)

Ruby used to be extremely slow and memory-hogging.

As a Rubyist I've been impressed with how much love Ruby gets here, and how much head space it consumes compared to far more popular languages.

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

- Bjarne Stroustrup

I don't think it receives very much hate.