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Ruby is a great language and ecosystem to be a Pro at. Get good at Ruby, then learn something like Scala/Erlang/Clojure. Scala and Ruby complement each other
by kennystone 15y ago
Ruby is a great language and ecosystem to be a Pro at. Get good at Ruby, then learn something like Scala/Erlang/Clojure. Scala and Ruby complement each other quite well, especially if you're using JRuby.
- BadassFractal 15y agoI'm curious, why exactly are languages such as Scala/Erlang/Clojure/Haskell often mentioned as the "end goal" of one's language journey? Is that because they generally allow you to do the most with the fewest lines of code?
- kennystone 15y agoI didn't mean it as an "end goal", just as languages which promote different paradigms versus Ruby (actors, functional programming, lisp-ness, etc). They also have different performance characteristics, if you need that sort of thing.