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i've always thought of Ruby as a very clean, elegant, ergonomic language to write tools in (based on a few months of experience working with it a few years ago)
by zach43 8y ago
i've always thought of Ruby as a very clean, elegant, ergonomic language to write tools in (based on a few months of experience working with it a few years ago).
I'm familiar enough with JS that i would primarily use JS now for web stuff, but Ruby is quite a nice language to use, and I wouldn't be surprised if its easier for beginners to learn than JS.
In any case I think that skills in any one of the popular 'big' higher level dynamically typed languages (Ruby, JS, Python) are fairly transferable to the others too.
- duncan-donuts 8y agoI remember people suggesting I learn javascript when I first started out. I found the syntax of ruby way easier to understand in those early days, and found ways to actually build stuff when I didn’t really know what I was doing. Now I sort of miss ruby (while writing node/typescript all day everyday).
- h1d 8y agoI agree. Mainly done PHP and Nodejs and lately helping on a ruby project but I like how it's more fun when other languages feel more tight. I feel too bad that Python had taken over the position of Ruby more or less.