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I've used it a good bit. When I'm using it, I miss the tools I have in Smalltalk and Lisp environments. When I use Smalltalk or Lisp, I don't miss pry or the o
by mikelevins 6y ago
I've used it a good bit. When I'm using it, I miss the tools I have in Smalltalk and Lisp environments.
When I use Smalltalk or Lisp, I don't miss pry or the other tools I have when working with Ruby.
I do like Ruby, though. I probably like it better than any other language that isn't made of s-expressions. (Well, I like ML a lot, too.) But the whole time I'm working with it it just makes me want to write another Ruby implementation, but this time on top of a proper interactive runtime.
There is one, actually: MagLev, which is built on a Smalltalk runtime. As far as I can tell, though, it's dormant.