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Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why (2012)
- rurban 9y agoSeveral people are cited with _why's code being "sloppy". I have to object strongly. I'm not a ruby programmer, so I cannot comment on that, but I can confirm that syck and potion, two of his most important and best engineered works are the opposite of sloppy. They are genius. Extremely well engineered, fast, slimmed down to be extremely functional, you won't find better code for these tasks. And there are multiples of comparable code bases to compare against. Potion, which I took over to maintain after his disappearence, shines over Lua and Io, which were the influences. It still would make a better ruby engine than cruby, jruby, or any other. But it uses a better language, so on the surface it is incompatible. Syck is still miles better than the official libyaml. I do work with both and extended both.