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With all of the hate, Ruby's still on top!? I'm using it because it makes me happy. Not surprisingly, that was Matz's goal. Why are others?
by sanj 19y ago
With all of the hate, Ruby's still on top!?
I'm using it because it makes me happy. Not surprisingly, that was Matz's goal.
Why are others?
- mechanical_fish 19y agoWhy bother hating a language that you never even use? That would be prejudice! It takes a lot of training, practice, and experience to really hate a language thoroughly.
- edw519 19y agoCould the same thing be said for people?
- ken 19y agoI'm using it because it's what our founder started with. I joined knowing this because it's higher-level than most languages in use, and we've got smart people and no bureaucracy. That doesn't mean I don't hate Ruby, but I do hate it a lot less than Java. In fact, I can't think of any case where a project I worked on used a language that I thought was the best abstraction for the problem space. It was what the founder thought would work well, or what the company policy required (I wish I was kidding), or what had bindings to The Library we needed, or had a compiler on the desired platform, or whatever. When I was job-hunting last, I found zero Lisp jobs in Seattle, and wasn't ready to start my own yet (and really don't want to move to Boston). Next time, I will be, and I'll probably use Lisp exclusively. Maybe it's time for a "I wish we were using ..." follow-up survey.