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I hear this a lot, but I have to wonder if it is just the bias of web developers who never looked at it before Rails. I started using Ruby in 2001 in Montreal w
by jhbadger 8y ago
I hear this a lot, but I have to wonder if it is just the bias of web developers who never looked at it before Rails. I started using Ruby in 2001 in Montreal where other colleagues were using it. We were all former Perl people who had gotten fed up with Perl and we didn't care for the inconsistent object orientation of Python.
- lmm 8y agoI'm not a web dev and have never used Rails, but I hadn't even heard of Ruby until Rails and Puppet got popular. I'm sure every language has a few people who heard about it in its early days, but I do think Rails was the catalyst for Ruby going mainstream, even to non-web people.