ITT YOU MAKE THE CLAIM RUBY CAN DO EVERYTHING

BECAUSE YOU CAN ALWAYS CALL C CODE TO DO IT RIGHT. AM I RITE?

I AM

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Depends. You won't make a 3D game or a RDBMS in a scripting language, but who cares if a GUI application, a DB application, a system script, etc. run slower when you can't notice/don't need it faster? Even if you have to buy more powerful servers for web applications, server costs are way below development costs.