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Yes. Python, when it started to get some steam, brought a readable competitor to Perl, and Ruby, a clean alternative to PHP once RoR got out.
by sametmax 7y ago
Yes. Python, when it started to get some steam, brought a readable competitor to Perl, and Ruby, a clean alternative to PHP once RoR got out.
- naasking 7y ago> Yes. Python, when it started to get some steam, brought a readable competitor to Perl So C# is a more readable and writable version of Java. > and Ruby, a clean alternative to PHP once RoR got out That was 10 years after Ruby was first released. Assuming "justification" is needed, what justified Ruby prior to that?
- sametmax 7y agoNobody used Ruby before that.
- naasking 7y agoWell that's false because I used it, and there was quite a vibrant community around it already.
- sametmax 7y agoYes ? Point me to a popular open source project that is written in Ruby that is not web based ? Even today where we just passed peak ruby. And I mean "yum" popular. Blender popular. QGIS popular. Not "that script that sort my ssh connection is in Ruby" popular.
- naasking 7y ago> Point me to a popular open source project that is written in Ruby that is not web based ? How is that relevant? The question was what justified Ruby at the time. If "Ruby on Rails" was the only justification, why did people use it for the 10 years prior to that? Were they not justified in using it? That's just nonsense.
- michaeldwan 7y agohomebrew, fastlane, fluentd, vagrant, gitlab, cocoapods...
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- zem 7y agochef and puppet are very popular
- jhbadger 7y agoThe fact that is was, and is, an incredibly clean and consistent scripting language with many of the best features of Smalltalk and Lisp that competing scripting languages like Perl and Python ignored. I started with Ruby circa 2001 thanks to the Pragmatic Programmer himself, Dave Thomas' "Pickaxe" book, and have yet to write even a single Web app (not my thing; I'm a computational biologist).