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I am a newbie to Ruby. I hadn't touched it before a few months ago, after coming to Shopify. But I really think Ruby is a fantastic language, I would much rathe
by ecshafer 5y ago
I am a newbie to Ruby. I hadn't touched it before a few months ago, after coming to Shopify. But I really think Ruby is a fantastic language, I would much rather program in Ruby than in Python, JS or Java right now. It reminds me of small talk and is just nice to write. And Rails, wow Rails is such a good web framework, there's no surprises, and its opinionated nature makes it really easy to come up to speed in even a big code base.
Tech trends are weird, and the "hot new thing" is usually based off of some blog post or tech company saying its cool. Plus with things like TruffleRuby and Sorbet and JITs, there's some interesting development in the ecosystem.
- vidarh 5y ago> It reminds me of small talk That's not a coincidence. Ruby is heavily Smalltalk-inspired syntax with a dash of Perl and Awk thrown in (notice all the "$"+single character bits, as well as a look at the "-n" command line) wrapped in nicer syntax.
- vidarh 5y ago[too late to edit: That should of course be Smalltalk-inspired semantics not syntax]