Ruby 2.6
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Ruby 2.6
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Re: Ruby 2.6
#2Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
Re: Ruby 2.6
#3Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
It a language made to make you as a developer happy. So, yes.
Re: Ruby 2.6
#4Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
As good as any time. You will loose a lot of performance when compared to v8 but the ruby paradigm is subjectively much more pleasant to work with.
Re: Ruby 2.6
#5Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
For me it is too much fun. I love that I can use most of the standard library without thinking / looking at the documentation, and not needing to wait for compilation.
But at the same time I hate that I love a language that performs so bad compared to being closer to the metal.
Re: Ruby 2.6
#6Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
For me it is too much fun. I love that I can use most of the standard library without thinking / looking at the documentation, and not needing to wait for compilation. But at the same time I hate that I love a language that performs so bad compared to being closer to the metal.
Have you looked at crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) ? Very ruby-like, but has additional safeties and compiles to native.
Re: Ruby 2.6
#7Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
Ruby isn't perfect but it's a great utility language and can do a lot of powerful things with very little effort. Read through Eloquent Ruby
The only problems I wouldn't go to Ruby for are CPU intensive ones or ones where I need parallel threads (which you already have Java for)
Re: Ruby 2.6
#8Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
For me it is too much fun. I love that I can use most of the standard library without thinking / looking at the documentation, and not needing to wait for compilation. But at the same time I hate that I love a language that performs so bad compared to being closer to the metal.
What use cases do you have that are more performant in other languages?
Re: Ruby 2.6
#9Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
Depends what you want to do, 90% of what I code in is python or Ruby, and I'll switch to C when I want performance. I've done a lot of rails (Ruby), Django (python), and flask (python) work in web development. Much prefer rails, eaiser, and better thought out. I have several websites with hundreds of thousands of visits a year, it is fine (all the frameworks are). I have had to do some inline C to speed up my Ruby in a couple of instances - but that's very specific (and something you can easily do).
In terms of data science, python is my go-to and much more tooled for that kind of work. For any kind of desktop app I'll use C++, and for browser extensions / add-ons it's JavaScript.
Re: Ruby 2.6
#10Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally, but I've been looking into Ruby as a fun side project language. I would appreciate any anecdotes!
As good as any time. You will loose a lot of performance when compared to v8 but the ruby paradigm is subjectively much more pleasant to work with.
Enumerable methods are almos always what make me want to ditch Javascript for Ruby.