In the past I've had plenty of discussions on HN about how awful and unintuitive Ruby's syntax is [1] [2]. I've always been at a loss as to why anyone would bo

In the past I've had plenty of discussions on HN about how awful and unintuitive Ruby's syntax is [1] [2]. I've always been at a loss as to why anyone would bother learning Ruby when Python is a hundred times easier to understand and basically does the same things. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5159024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5159024 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872899