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It can be, more than other languages, but doesn’t “have” to be. Complex code is a smell.

• entropie 4y ago
  Meta programming stuff can be very confusing for non native rubyists. Generally thats something one should avoid in shared/production codebases.
  • lgreiv 4y ago
    As someone with a bit more of a decade of Ruby experience: meta programming can be very confusing for native rubyists, too. There is a place for it (my personal take would be that this place is usually libraries/gems, e.g. if they need to be flexible to adapt to the consumer’s project), but it’s usually not code that needs to „convey a story“ (usually business logic) or needs to be debugged/observed.