I'm not a fan of Ruby, but the original Wired article is pure, distilled rage-clickbait, and nobody should be dignifying it. An interesting case where there'd be a more generous reading had the piece run solely on a blog, rather than on Wired.com.

But even if it had been written in good faith, this species of article (specifically: harsh critiques of popular programming languages written by people who aren't ongoing practitioners in that language) are a toxin to HN, the resulting language fights they gin up one of our closest equivalents to a cytokine storm. Don't feed into them.