neveruseruby

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   by neveruseruby 9y ago

   > A true sign of maturity is when a programmer is faced with a workload that they are deeply unhappy about, but still get it done, because it needs to be done. I’d like to pause the ruby discussion here to point out this is a deeply unhe
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   by neveruseruby 9y ago

   Perl is also user hostile. So is haskell. Many languages are not, and people don’t typically build and maintain software in them for a reason—it’s expensive and slow compared to, say, java. What’s your point?
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   by neveruseruby 9y ago

   You can skip it if you acknowledge the tradeoffs, including the difficulties of hiring for a language people dislike, for better or worse. Personally I would never work with other peoples rails again without seeing the code before hand. Rai