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I used cursor over the past three weeks to update a 12 year-old Ruby on rails project. While it has been slightly updated throughout the years, this was my firs

I used cursor over the past three weeks to update a 12 year-old Ruby on rails project. While it has been slightly updated throughout the years, this was my first proper modernization of the code base. It’s been a real pleasure getting back into Ruby after so many years in typescript, python, and rust. Happy to see the update. Real shame about the haters here, the Ruby community is a supportive and positive bunch that has shipped real products while others seem to worship at the altar of computer science alone… that’s about as counter snarky as I want to be here

DonHopkins 10mo ago
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        eudamoniac 10mo ago
        So everyone born in USA is a native American, right?
        tovej 10mo ago
        Yes, they are native to the USA. They aren't native american of course. That's a silly dishonest argument based on wordplay.
        eudamoniac 10mo ago
        So why are they not "native Americans" but the people referenced in your quote are "native Brits"?
        tovej 10mo ago
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        TimTheTinker 10mo ago
        So using a term as an ethnonym for historically British ethnic people is racist? If so, is it racist to assert or assume that ethnic Europeans exist?
        periodjet 10mo ago
        Social justice fundamentalism asserts that there are favored (“oppressed”) groups, and disfavored (“oppressor”) groups. True believers have created a largely arbitrary grouping called “white people”, assigning it the “oppressor” label. If a favored group’s nation were flooded by “white people”, that would be seen as an emergent situation requiring remedy; the opposite is what we’re seeing play out in societies like Britain, and is Not a Problem. I’m committing an act of violence by even describing it in this way. How or when a disfavored group is restored to neutral or favored status is undefined; one would presumably have to consult a head priest of the movement for an answer (and I wouldn’t expect any coherence or clarity).
        TimTheTinker 10mo ago
        It sounds like a Marxist structure with re-assigned labels.
scruple 10mo ago
I spent ~16 years with Ruby (as a non-primary language for the first 5 years, but then as my primary for the remainder), from ~2006/2007 til 2022/2023. I had a couple of hours free to spin up new personal project this morning. At first I was going to default to Python since I use it heavily at work. On a whim, I decided to see what Ruby 3.4 has to offer since it's been a few years. I am very happy with that decision. I really miss Ruby the language a lot, it's such a joy to work with.
- andrei_says_ 10mo ago
  Ruby is still a joy for me, too, and Rails continues to evolve while providing solid best practices as the default. A side effect is an increased intolerance to agony, boilerplate verbosity, complexity. I look at the JavaScript world and shudder. Also, Ruby being as expressive as it is, describing things to an LLM is not really a timesaver over writing the code myself.

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      - eudamoniac 10mo ago
        So everyone born in USA is a native American, right?
        tovej 10mo ago
        Yes, they are native to the USA. They aren't native american of course. That's a silly dishonest argument based on wordplay.
        eudamoniac 10mo ago
        So why are they not "native Americans" but the people referenced in your quote are "native Brits"?
        tovej 10mo ago
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        TimTheTinker 10mo ago
        So using a term as an ethnonym for historically British ethnic people is racist? If so, is it racist to assert or assume that ethnic Europeans exist?
        periodjet 10mo ago
        Social justice fundamentalism asserts that there are favored (“oppressed”) groups, and disfavored (“oppressor”) groups. True believers have created a largely arbitrary grouping called “white people”, assigning it the “oppressor” label. If a favored group’s nation were flooded by “white people”, that would be seen as an emergent situation requiring remedy; the opposite is what we’re seeing play out in societies like Britain, and is Not a Problem. I’m committing an act of violence by even describing it in this way. How or when a disfavored group is restored to neutral or favored status is undefined; one would presumably have to consult a head priest of the movement for an answer (and I wouldn’t expect any coherence or clarity).
        TimTheTinker 10mo ago
        It sounds like a Marxist structure with re-assigned labels.

scruple 10mo ago

I spent ~16 years with Ruby (as a non-primary language for the first 5 years, but then as my primary for the remainder), from ~2006/2007 til 2022/2023. I had a couple of hours free to spin up new personal project this morning. At first I was going to default to Python since I use it heavily at work. On a whim, I decided to see what Ruby 3.4 has to offer since it's been a few years. I am very happy with that decision. I really miss Ruby the language a lot, it's such a joy to work with.

andrei_says_ 10mo ago
Ruby is still a joy for me, too, and Rails continues to evolve while providing solid best practices as the default. A side effect is an increased intolerance to agony, boilerplate verbosity, complexity. I look at the JavaScript world and shudder. Also, Ruby being as expressive as it is, describing things to an LLM is not really a timesaver over writing the code myself.