I don’t have some kind of grand, unified theory about this - but the people I know who genuinely enjoy Ruby on its merits seem to think about code differently.

I don’t have some kind of grand, unified theory about this - but the people I know who genuinely enjoy Ruby on its merits seem to think about code differently. Not different-as-in-bad, but just… different. I too find it hard to explain. > Ruby is one of those few languages you can just read I think this has something to do with it, though. The stdlib has a lot of different ways to “say” the same thing (TIMTOWTDI, anyone?) and used well it can be quite legible. But some programmers I know find that really frustrating. Maybe it has something to do with how one visually processes and reads code? How one might associate semantic meaning to things? I don’t know how, but it feels like there’s something interesting there to study.