> I found python and ruby much easier to read and pick up. One reason for this is, that programmers are not allowed to define new irregularities. The mechanism

> I found python and ruby much easier to read and pick up. One reason for this is, that programmers are not allowed to define new irregularities. The mechanisms they give you are more than enough, though. Ruby especially favours this kind of thing a lot; how many people really have any idea what's going on (and how many of them beyond "something to do with method_missing and instance_eval") when they write something like: FactoryBot.define do factory :foo do bar { 'baz' } end end I don't think understanding that it's all blocks and method calls wins you that much.