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Try Crystal and you get the joy of Ruby enumerables together with a static type system.
Interesting. What’s your opinions on Crystal right now as a substitute for Ruby? Is there a good stack like Rails for Crystal?
Is 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 is as good time as to, say, learn Farsi. It's beautiful, it's fun, learning it is a great experience, and, plus, quite a few people already enjoy speaking it. Or, you could learn something else without feeling much of a loss.
Ruby is alive and well despite all the rumors of it's demise. I predict a resurgence in its use over the next few years.
Can't wait to examine and try out the new features.
Ruby used to be my most beloved language. I've since developed a strong appreciation for good type system. However, working with collections of any kind in Ruby is just such a joy. The methods around it are so well thought throug and make writing code a joy that in most other languages just would be tedious. On top of that the Ruby team is constantly working on making that aspect even better. I truly don't understand…
Can you recommend a post/article explaining some of what makes Ruby's collections especially pleasant? Studying Ruby's stdlib design has been on my 'someday' list, but there's so much else there...
Ruby used to be my most beloved language. I've since developed a strong appreciation for good type system. However, working with collections of any kind in Ruby is just such a joy. The methods around it are so well thought throug and make writing code a joy that in most other languages just would be tedious. On top of that the Ruby team is constantly working on making that aspect even better. I truly don't understand…
Can you recommend a post/article explaining some of what makes Ruby's collections especially pleasant? Studying Ruby's stdlib design has been on my 'someday' list, but there's so much else there...
Ruby used to be my most beloved language. I've since developed a strong appreciation for good type system. However, working with collections of any kind in Ruby is just such a joy. The methods around it are so well thought throug and make writing code a joy that in most other languages just would be tedious. On top of that the Ruby team is constantly working on making that aspect even better. I truly don't understand…
Try Crystal and you get the joy of Ruby enumerables together with a static type system.
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Try Crystal and you get the joy of Ruby enumerables together with a static type system.
Interesting. What’s your opinions on Crystal right now as a substitute for Ruby? Is there a good stack like Rails for Crystal?
But dang it's nice to do stuff in it.
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Negative indices aren't magic. They follow the obvious wraparound (modular) pattern: Negative `i` indexes the element in array `a` located at `i % len(a)`. If they worked any other way it'd be madness.
I don't think you got that index calculation right. -1 in array of 5 elements is located at 5-1 == 4, not at 1%5 == 1.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation#Remainder_cal...
This will be fun. I’m glad we now have some performance improvements to some common methods. For those considering playing with Ruby, you should! One thing I’m surprised not many has mentioned what makes ruby unique and awesome, BLOCKS!
Scala even allows multiple blocks to be passed in, used to good effect in the Cats effect `bracket` function, amongst others.
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what bout clojure?
Clojure's stdlib is unintuitive, and `into` is the poster child. It's easy to find what's available in Ruby: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.3/Enumerable.html Good luck with Clojure: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html