Ruby

What are your true feelings regarding Ruby?
Do you really think it's good or do you like it just because it's Japanese?

Neither. I used to use it before Rails came along, but quit around 2005 mainly for two reasons: firstly, it is inded slow as fuck, even when compared to other interpreted languages (or at least it was back then), and secondly and more importantly, Matz loves Perl and the cancer of TIMTOWTDI is an integral part of Ruby culture, which got really annoying as more and more people starting using it, each inventing their own weird customs and idioms. Nowadays it seems that majority of Ruby users are annoying Textmate-using Web 2.0 hipsters, which is one more reason to avoid it.