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I feel left out since I never learned Ruby. I love a range of programming languages, but I never had a reason to learn Ruby. It looks so powerful and seems to h
by jjice 6y ago
I feel left out since I never learned Ruby. I love a range of programming languages, but I never had a reason to learn Ruby. It looks so powerful and seems to have a lot of quality of life features (backticks for a subprocess seems awesome for scripting). When I've considered to sit down and learn it, the big question always pops in my head: "is Ruby dead?". I think that's because of the lack of its prevalence in my life, because it seems like HN loves it and this most recent version seems fantastic, especially with some more advanced static analysis.
I wish I didn't have that idea of Ruby being dead for as long as I had, because it really seems beautiful. Maybe I'll have to make Ruby my next language project.
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- burlesona 6y agoRuby is far from dead, it’s just past the hype. Fortunately in the last year or so I’d say it’s also past the blowback that comes to yesterday’s hype tech when the next hype tech arrives. (Have fun with Deno, Node.) Ruby really shines into areas: general purpose scripting (it was originally designed to be a bash replacement), and web development (because the ecosystem is very large). As the primary language for GitHub, Stripe, Shopify, AirBNB and many others, Ruby will likely always have a vibrant niche in web world, even if it never expands far beyond that circle. And for general purpose scripting, I mean, any language you enjoy using is a good choice for writing your scripts in.
- jrsj 6y agoI kind of doubt Deno will see much serious production usage. There’s not much practical point to it from a business perspective. The only way it would become popular for most use cases would be if it had Node compatibility, which doesn’t seem to be happening regardless.