[cycomachead]

In that case -- I definitely agree Ruby usually gets out of way. It's often my go to for hacking on something, unless it's data science-y.

I'll mention: implicit returns, return if, and safe navigation, the &. operator. Ruby's newer pattern matching features are really cool[1], especially for things like JSON structures, but I've only use started using them. Classes are also super easy to extend.

Many of these things are also incredibly easy to abuse - but they have their places.

[1]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.0/syntax/pattern_matching_rd...