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Ask HN: Why Does Ruby Get So Much Hate on HN?
- delichon 11mo agoAs a Rubyist I've been impressed with how much love Ruby gets here, and how much head space it consumes compared to far more popular languages.
- curious_curios 11mo ago“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” - Bjarne Stroustrup
- __patchbit__ 11mo agoAsk AI about C++ and CUDA C++ and expectations of success in projects like F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
- rijoja 11mo agoI don't think it receives very much hate.
- Alifatisk 10mo agoMe neither, I do not know where OP gets this impression. I've mostly seen love towards the language and it's web framework (Rails). But either way, why care? My best advice is to disconnect feelings with the tools. It's just a tool, nothing personal.
- Borg3 11mo agoI am more curious why you actually care? Are you doing Ruby coding for living? This seems the only valid reason. I love Ruby, I write a lot of tools in it. When I need extras, I extend Ruby using C. Its easy to do and very clean. I even write simple GUI stuff in Ruby, because why not? And I dont really care if Ruby is loved or not. Its Open Source. I made backup of all stuff I care about. Its easy to just rebuild if necessary :)
- wmf 11mo agoRuby used to be extremely slow and memory-hogging.
- Lio 10mo agoIt was never really any worse than python. I wonder if the new generation of Ruby runtimes like ZJIT, TruffleRuby and JRuby if we get roughly the same speed as JavaScript if that will change what people complain about. They'll still complain, obviously, because every language seems to have haters. :D