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Agree. I am ready for a Ruby renaissance that is not so heavily focused on rails. I have built quite a few standalone utilities in ruby over the years and it’s

Agree. I am ready for a Ruby renaissance that is not so heavily focused on rails. I have built quite a few standalone utilities in ruby over the years and it’s a joy compared many other languages and ecosystems.

matheusmoreira 2y ago
I wonder what prompted this renaissance. Always loved the language, never cared much about Rails. For a long time it seemed like Ruby was never going to catch up to Python and JavaScript which are the default languages everybody uses. Now every other day I see some awesome Ruby news about how it's getting better and faster. Not that I'm not complaining.
- kenhwang 2y ago
  Seems like the next generation of programmers has relearned the lessons of poor package management and ecosystem fragmentation, and that it wasn't worth giving up for a slightly simpler or slightly faster language. Also, ruby did get a lot faster in the last couple years, which inspires people to want to help make it even faster. When someone finds gold, everyone else rushes in to look for more.
- chris12321 2y ago
  I think it's a combination of a lot of things over the last 2ish years: 1. Ruby 3.0 and YJIT have provided huge performance gains for the language with further improvements still left to be implemented. 2. Ruby releases new versions every year on Christmas day, so you're more likely to get new content around this time of year. 2. Large Rails shops like Github and Shopify have redoubled their commitment to Ruby/Rails and invested a lot of resources into improving the developer experience with ruby-lsp. 3. Prism, the new Ruby parser has been developed and merged into Ruby, from my understanding, it's a lot more user-friendly and fault-tolerant, allowing for the creation of more/better development tools. 4. Rails 7/8 released a ton of exciting new features such as Hotwire, Solid suite, auth generation and others. Promising a simpler way to make high-fidelity applications. 5. The Rails Foundation was created and has focused on improving documentation, organising Rails World and pushing the message of Rails being 'a one person framework' that can get you 'from hello world to IPO'. 6. A growing dissatisfaction with the needless complexity of the Javascript ecosystem and cloud providers, pushing people towards the simple but powerful solutions Rails provides. All these individual contributions seem to have produced a snowball effect. As a long-time Rails developer, seeing there be a new Ruby and/or Rails post on the front page of HN nearly every day recently has been really exciting.

matheusmoreira 2y ago

I wonder what prompted this renaissance. Always loved the language, never cared much about Rails. For a long time it seemed like Ruby was never going to catch up to Python and JavaScript which are the default languages everybody uses. Now every other day I see some awesome Ruby news about how it's getting better and faster. Not that I'm not complaining.

kenhwang 2y ago
Seems like the next generation of programmers has relearned the lessons of poor package management and ecosystem fragmentation, and that it wasn't worth giving up for a slightly simpler or slightly faster language. Also, ruby did get a lot faster in the last couple years, which inspires people to want to help make it even faster. When someone finds gold, everyone else rushes in to look for more.
chris12321 2y ago
I think it's a combination of a lot of things over the last 2ish years: 1. Ruby 3.0 and YJIT have provided huge performance gains for the language with further improvements still left to be implemented. 2. Ruby releases new versions every year on Christmas day, so you're more likely to get new content around this time of year. 2. Large Rails shops like Github and Shopify have redoubled their commitment to Ruby/Rails and invested a lot of resources into improving the developer experience with ruby-lsp. 3. Prism, the new Ruby parser has been developed and merged into Ruby, from my understanding, it's a lot more user-friendly and fault-tolerant, allowing for the creation of more/better development tools. 4. Rails 7/8 released a ton of exciting new features such as Hotwire, Solid suite, auth generation and others. Promising a simpler way to make high-fidelity applications. 5. The Rails Foundation was created and has focused on improving documentation, organising Rails World and pushing the message of Rails being 'a one person framework' that can get you 'from hello world to IPO'. 6. A growing dissatisfaction with the needless complexity of the Javascript ecosystem and cloud providers, pushing people towards the simple but powerful solutions Rails provides. All these individual contributions seem to have produced a snowball effect. As a long-time Rails developer, seeing there be a new Ruby and/or Rails post on the front page of HN nearly every day recently has been really exciting.