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Ruby Still isn't dead
- Something1234 9y agoThat said very little. It was just ruby 2.5 is going to be awesome, and we need people.
- undoware 9y ago"Go, Visual Basic, Perl - all these are great, commonly used languages - are they dead or dying too? There’s no reason to think so." Go is fine but yeah those other two are, uh, well.
- ParamModule 9y agoPerl isn't dead so much as it's primarily only used in production by older sys admins but it still has a community that loves it, VB.NET is alive and well in Microsoft shops and among noob malware authors. My definition of fucking dead is smalltalk. But this is coming from a guy who's favorite pls are erlang, SML/NJ, and Ocaml lol.
- overloadrix 9y ago> My definition of fucking dead is smalltalk A curious definition. Not only Smalltalk is still used (e.g. in fintech), but it's intelectual virtues are always revisited and rediscovered by new generations who, invariably, try to come up with a "modern" version of it, or something inspired by it.
- marvy 9y agoLike Ruby!
- rurban 9y agoLike ruby? AFAIK nothing new ever came out of ruby. It was just a nice pure implementation of smalltalk on top of Perl. Of course the everything is a method strategy and unoptimized MOP burned them. Just look at their new jit. Can anybody think of a worse strategy to implement a jit? There are serious technical and management problems. V Makarov at least wrote the register machine before the naive cc -> so jit, but then the Japanese came and even ripped that out.
- jack9 9y agoI had to write Ruby (with no prior experience) as part of an interview exercise, about 10 years ago. Never encountered it or used it since. Not sure it has a purposeful niche or enough of a differentiation to grow in use.
- amazingman 9y agoThis is one of dryest jokes I’ve ever seen on HN. Well done.
- EduardoBautista 9y agoI am not aware of the joke here. Could someone please explain?
- pstuart 9y agoRails.
- amazingman 9y agoDing ding ding.
- jack9 9y agoObviously, not a joke. COBOL and Ruby have a lot in common, as far as I can tell.
- amazingman 9y agoIt’s definitely a joke, intentional or not. Hell, it’s even funnier if it was unintentional.
- herbst 9y agoWhy do we need a quarterly article to remind us about the obvious?