Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
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Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
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Re: Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
#2I started my development career on at the tail end of the Ruby on Rails craze and in the middle of the JS framework explosion. I've always wanted to learn Ruby, but it always seems to me that it would just be learning it for learning's sake and not for any professional development. It's unfortunate, because the little Ruby I did learn, I enjoyed.
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#3I’d like to use this to voice my appreciation for Ruby. Its ergonomics, flexibility, elegance and power continue to bring me joy and make me smarter every day.
It is incredibly malleable and yet pure. It carries a certain warmth and kindness that permeate its community.
It becomes faster every couple of years :)
I feel so grateful to work with a language that makes me feel like a wizard and look forward to writing code.
The community is so incredibly creative, smart and generous that I feel humbled every day.
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#4This is really cool. I’ve used a number of languages and dabbled in a few frameworks but nothing I’ve used brings me joy like ruby does.
I approach programming creatively. I think in large systems and architecture. Ruby allows me to skip worrying about the details. Code blocks abstract away thinking about loops and just focus on data. Just about every array operation I could want is there, waiting for a code block. In other languages, things don’t flow like that.
I’ve tried purely function languages and I just can’t wrap my head around them because they abstract too much.
I’ve tried python, but I end up having to deal with the mess of importing modules and having to set up loops when all I want to do is map data.
Node.js comes so close but anemic standard library and absolute mess of explicit async everywhere just gets in the way. I want to love JavaScript. :(
Then there is Rails. Nothing even comes close. The attempts to replicate it in other languages ends up missing part of what makes it so great. I’m sad about the move to mounds of JavaScript. Nothing can match the productivity of simple_form and bootstrap.
My entire career has been in Ruby on Rails. I hope improvements to Ruby can keep it relevant. If not, I suppose JavaScript will do.
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#5I started my development career on at the tail end of the Ruby on Rails craze and in the middle of the JS framework explosion. I've always wanted to learn Ruby, but it always seems to me that it would just be learning it for learning's sake and not for any professional development. It's unfortunate, because the little Ruby I did learn, I enjoyed.
Ruby on rails still hasn't peaked yet so I'm not sure what you mean by the tail end. Rust micro services might be the new trend for big tech but there would be more rails apps in development now than there ever has been.
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#6The RBS files seem like a weird compromise to me. I I'm not sure I see the practical benefit, but maybe someone who has used .d.ts files can explain it. Is it just helpful if your IDE has tooling to use it? Seems like it could be helpful, but also sounds like it will become an annoying "code quality" hoop those of us that don't use VSCode will have to jump through for little benefit. When you read code outside of your IDE, like a code review, will you have to scan both files at once in order to benefit from static type information? Does it enforce types at runtime? I'm curious but it's a tough sell to me. I've used optional types in both PHP and Python and found them to be an annoyance compared to strong typing in Rust, where they basically guide you at every step.
The IO/performance improvements and concurrency improvements are exciting. Reading this makes me want to try out ractors.
Re: Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
#7I started my development career on at the tail end of the Ruby on Rails craze and in the middle of the JS framework explosion. I've always wanted to learn Ruby, but it always seems to me that it would just be learning it for learning's sake and not for any professional development. It's unfortunate, because the little Ruby I did learn, I enjoyed.
Ruby on rails still hasn't peaked yet so I'm not sure what you mean by the tail end. Rust micro services might be the new trend for big tech but there would be more rails apps in development now than there ever has been.
> Rust micro services might be the new trend
Golang is the trend. (I don't have any opinion in either Golang or Rust; but most jobs out there are looking for Golang microservice deployed in K8S)
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#8Honestly I don't get why some people want to move to static types. Ruby is a dynamic language, that's the point of it... Giant orgs can just use Java or something. We need some languages to stay productive for those of us who work solo or in small groups. If I wanted static types I'd use Java, Go or something (probably Haskell).
Re: Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ruby on rails still hasn't peaked yet so I'm not sure what you mean by the tail end. Rust micro services might be the new trend for big tech but there would be more rails apps in development now than there ever has been.
> Rust micro services might be the new trend Golang is the trend. (I don't have any opinion in either Golang or Rust; but most jobs out there are looking for Golang microservice deployed in K8S)
If you are really paying attention to the hype train, I think Rust has more energy and blog posts behind it at the current moment. Golang probably gets more use like ruby on rails does.
Re: Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
#10Honestly I don't get why some people want to move to static types. Ruby is a dynamic language, that's the point of it... Giant orgs can just use Java or something. We need some languages to stay productive for those of us who work solo or in small groups. If I wanted static types I'd use Java, Go or something (probably Haskell).
Mostly, I really want Rails in a typed language.