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Ruby apps are by far the most time consuming to configure and install. Nothing is simple. Nothing just works. The whole idea of exposing end users to your apps

by throw2016 10y ago

Ruby apps are by far the most time consuming to configure and install. Nothing is simple. Nothing just works. The whole idea of exposing end users to your apps's depencies and compilation is a broken user hostile model. The potential rabbit hole of versions incompatibilities and mismatches is a time sink that cannot be justified. Go is by far the simplest hassle free deploy followed by PHP and Python. For a unix command line tool that seeks a userbase beyond Ruby users Go or Python would be the most user friendly choice.

pmurach 10y ago
Many systems come preinstalled with Ruby. Bundler is a very elegant and simple solution - I don't think it is hostile. Quite often the tools that we build are written by developers for developers or system administrators. For example Puppet or Chef. In my experience, these are people how don't mind running couple commands to get started. If anything I have heard people say really positive things on how easy and pain free installation is. Of course, if you want to write portable code that works on any system then Go is a very wise solution.