I’m a longtime PHP/JS dev who recently decided to give Ruby and Rails a look given its influence on Laravel. The first thing I did was read the Rails Doctrine a

I’m a longtime PHP/JS dev who recently decided to give Ruby and Rails a look given its influence on Laravel. The first thing I did was read the Rails Doctrine and, while I appreciated most of it, I thought "The Principle of The Bigger Smile" and DHH’s comments re Ruby's elegance were one self-indulgent-bridge too far. Back to the jaded PHP cave I go... That was until I learned that in Ruby: `someObj.some_var = 'hello'` Is syntactic sugar for: `someObj.some_var=('hello')` That made me smile. I have never smiled like that about a programming language. It literally gave me joy. I’ll be honest I have some trepidation devoting my time now to something “old”, but on the flip side my career is in PHP so what the hell am I talking about “old” for.