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Someone show Ruby some love:) Learn Ruby. Its a beautiful language well worth the effort and it has a HUGE ecosystem behind it. You'll never lack for resource
by Lordarminius 10y ago
Someone show Ruby some love:)
Learn Ruby.
Its a beautiful language well worth the effort and it has a HUGE ecosystem behind it. You'll never lack for resources. It is powerful and I found it doable to learn it all on my own.
It will aid in the transition to making dynamic websites because it is used in Rails.
In the early part of my learning I found that the break in compatibility between python 2 and 3 was irritating and confusing to me. Some of the good books were on python 2 and I had been informed the world was moving on to 3. Ruby has major versions (1.9 vs 2) but no break.(I started out by trying to learn python but switched midway to ruby)
The only caveat is if you want to do math heavy stuff or machine learning - python excels at that.
Python is frequently recommended by people with a CS / computational background. I did not have that.
Some people do not approve and I understand. But this was my experience. YMMV.
- FalconNine 10y agoHmm. I kind of want to go for Ruby...but how would it do if I wanted to make simple games? Nothing too fancy but simple pixel games or clicker types.
- Lordarminius 10y ago> ....but how would it do if I wanted to make simple games? Yes ruby can be used for games. https://www.sitepoint.com/is-ruby-good-for-game-development/ https://www.sitepoint.com/is-ruby-good-for-game-development/
- optimuspaul 10y agoRuby is a terrible first language. Too many ways to do things and looking at other peoples example code will only confuse people new to programming. Also too easy to fall into bad habits.