Pygame recently hit 2.0, incorporating libsdl-2.0.0 after a long wait. Have you tried that?
I think you're a bit off in describing Ruby as a language in decline. Rails startups are being built every single day, Hotwire is threatening yet another Rails renaissance as Ruby moves towards reactive web app technology, mruby is pushing forward into smaller areas, and TruffleRuby is moving forward into exceptionally performant Ruby code.
This is all on top of 3.0, which brings all manner of improvements, most notably type annotations.
I love Python as much as anybody, but I think they are equally respectable and equally popular in their own niches.
Syntax is only a preference, there is much more to Ruby as a language than just the syntactic departures from Python code. It's a different model and encourages a different style of problem solving.
I think you're a bit off in describing Ruby as a language in decline. Rails startups are being built every single day, Hotwire is threatening yet another Rails renaissance as Ruby moves towards reactive web app technology, mruby is pushing forward into smaller areas, and TruffleRuby is moving forward into exceptionally performant Ruby code.
This is all on top of 3.0, which brings all manner of improvements, most notably type annotations.
I love Python as much as anybody, but I think they are equally respectable and equally popular in their own niches.
Syntax is only a preference, there is much more to Ruby as a language than just the syntactic departures from Python code. It's a different model and encourages a different style of problem solving.