And also, a decade before the Ruby community was the most inspiring community. One can really learn a lot from others, every day. It was like a hacker sanctuary while most programmers are still debating Java vs C++/C#.

Now the community is scattered into different communities - JavaScript, Go, Python, Rust, Scala, Elixir, etc. Those communities are still quite good, but none of them is as great as the previous Ruby community, or at least, gives me the same feeling IMHO.