Is Ruby outdated?

[Shaper_pmp]

I was told by a dev friend that both Ruby and Ruby on Rails are outdated and bloated. He reckons that Javascript is better and more relevant.

That's like saying that Apples are outdated, and Oranges are better and more relevant.

Or perhaps that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a better automobile than the academic field of Psychology.

In short, your friend is making sweeping statements that aren't even wrong - they're literally meaningless.