Because it’s a winner’s language, as it was proved in CodeBattle experiment.
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They invited thousands of coders from around the world to kick each other’s asses show their best in solving the same tricky problem.

Rules were fair & simple:

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To add more fuel to the battle, each participant was given a right to see the opponent’s code, chat with him and the audience…
So it happened.
Ruby won!

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* games statistics is for Q4 2015, games with the similar languages were excluded

Ruby warriors succeeded in 52% of 3651 games they participated in. Fortune favors the bold.

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