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   by floppy-disk 2y ago

   Whoa, interesting... What version are you running? Here's my system: $ ruby -v ruby 3.3.1 (2024-04-23 revision c56cd86388) [x86_64-linux] $ time ruby -e '' real 0m0.122s user 0m0.102s sys 0m0.020s I found a
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   by floppy-disk 2y ago

   While I write most of my scripts in Ruby and enjoy doing so, there is one gripe I have with it: its slow start-up time. On my machine, running an empty Ruby script takes about 100ms, compared to <10ms for Python, Perl, Lua, Bash. One can
3. 3.▲
   by floppy-disk 5y ago

   Refactoring legacy code.
4. 4.▲
   by floppy-disk 6y ago

   There are also numerous people which promote the excessive use of small classes and methods like for example Kent Beck or Robert Martin. As always, there probably is no "right" answer, it really depends on context.
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   by floppy-disk 6y ago

   > a lot of the developers I've observed are very bad at drawing coherent software boundaries That's a very good point. Designing small components probably requires more effort and can also cause a lot of harm if done incorrectl
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   by floppy-disk 6y ago

   I would not agree that the bias towards OOP is a problem in the book, since most of the concepts are paradigm-agnostic. Nevertheless, I feel that the author exposes a rather opinionated (sometimes even dogmatic) and narrow view of software