Comment by hello_moto

People never fully adopted Ruby for Ruby sake.

People adopted Ruby because of Rails.

Another more adopted Ruby software are probably fluentD and maybe Jekyll. The rest kind of comes and goes.

Majority sys-admin toolings have always been dominated by Python and with k8s hype, some of the toolings have been geared towards k8s automation written in Golang.

In general, sys-admin toolings are a mixed bunch: perl, shell, python, ruby