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gentoopenguin
12y ago
I wonder how much of Ruby's adoption was driven by Rails, and how much of Rails' adoption was driven by developers who previously only had experience with languages like Java or PHP. I say this because as nice as Ruby is (at least
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gentoopenguin
12y ago
What I can't understand is why Ruby's standard implementation still has such terrible performance after all these years. Yes, the language is quite complicated, at least syntactically, but semantically it's similar enough to