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Ruby's weird for me in the sense that it is the language that most directly maps to my thought processes. Ruby's syntax feels extremely natural, but I first lea
by pdntspa 3y ago
Ruby's weird for me in the sense that it is the language that most directly maps to my thought processes. Ruby's syntax feels extremely natural, but I first learned Java and C like a lot of my other cohort. Maybe it's because the first programming language I was truly good at was Perl
- stouset 3y agoRuby has the highest ceiling for clean, elegant, and expressive solutions to problems in any language I’ve ever seen. For small teams of (one or two) highly-experienced programmers with compatible vision, you can produce truly incredible programs. It also has the lowest floor. With the usual makeup of teams of frequently-rotating mostly-junior engineers who don’t have the experience, understanding, and restraint to use Ruby’s more… let’s call them idiosyncratic features, the sheer volume of completely inscrutable crap that can be put out in a given amount of time is truly breathtaking.
- Lammy 3y agoI feel the same way and I'm so happy I gave the language another chance after getting turned away by the behavior/attitudes of the Rails community back in "The Day". Ruby made me love programming again :)
- poidos 3y agoThis is how I feel with Clojure -- it fits into the way my brain thinks about how to solve problems computationally better than anything else.