I added the syntax error detection in 3.2. I hope it’s helpful!
you rule
Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension
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#12About the regex speedup, it looks like Ruby 3.2 is now doing this https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Yeah, now i can confidently use this to check a string is float
def is_float?(fl)
fl =~ /(^(\d+)(\.)?(\d+)?)|(^(\d+)?(\.)(\d+))/
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#13This https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/5407 is how to run Ruby with WASI.
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#14Ruby is my favorite language, and often it is a joy to use because of its combined attributes of brevity, expressive power, and feature consistency.
It's disappointing that there are so many more jobs for another popular language - one that lacks the elegance and consistency but which has a larger ecosystem.
As far as I know, the only well known reason for a company to choose Ruby is if they want Rails (and obviously if the founding team already knows/likes Ruby). But that other language also has a popular (and comparatively clumsy) web framework plus well known modules for all the fantasy capabilities that startups dream of... you know, the AI/ML "not sure how we will use it but we know it will be great, and it's good for marketing".
Sadly, I don't expect this situation to reverse in the future. Maybe like blockchain, once the AI/ML fantasy hype dies down the other comparatively-unpleasant language will lose general appeal and Ruby will gain more attention.
Edit - also, the domain squatters "rubylang.org" should lose their domain. There is no legitimate excuse for having this domain which redirects to a general garbage site.
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#15Ruby is my favorite language, and often it is a joy to use because of its combined attributes of brevity, expressive power, and feature consistency. It's disappointing that there are so many more jobs for another popular language - one that lacks the elegance and consistency but which has a larger ecosystem. As far as I know, the only well known reason for a company to choose Ruby is if they want Rails (and obviously…
> the other comparatively-unpleasant language
> one that lacks the elegance and consistency
upvoted for perfectly concise description of that language.
it is even more sad knowing that high quality alternatives for the most popular libraries exist, but inertia is simply too high.
@work I've tried to introduce Ruby to my colleagues that are very bad at programming, but good at science. They ditched it with reasons like "I don't like it" or "it's too slow" without even measuring (it is not! Shopify would have died by now). I'm still using it without them knowing and it's the reason why I'm 10x faster than everybody else to build solutions.
The other language it's the only one they "learned" at uni and keep using it for everything, even when it's the worst possible choice, management doesn't care and doesn't know the difference.
software engineering is still not engineering, unfortunately.
Re: Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension
#16About the regex speedup, it looks like Ruby 3.2 is now doing this https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Yeah, now i can confidently use this to check a string is float def is_float?(fl) fl =~ /(^(\d+)(\.)?(\d+)?)|(^(\d+)?(\.)(\d+))/ end
Forgot the minus sign!
Doesn't Ruby allow scientific notation for floats?
Re: Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension
#17Ruby is my favorite language, and often it is a joy to use because of its combined attributes of brevity, expressive power, and feature consistency. It's disappointing that there are so many more jobs for another popular language - one that lacks the elegance and consistency but which has a larger ecosystem. As far as I know, the only well known reason for a company to choose Ruby is if they want Rails (and obviously…
> the other comparatively-unpleasant language > one that lacks the elegance and consistency upvoted for perfectly concise description of that language. it is even more sad knowing that high quality alternatives for the most popular libraries exist, but inertia is simply too high. @work I've tried to introduce Ruby to my colleagues that are very bad at programming, but good at science. They ditched it with reasons lik…
the "too slow argument" is normally based on old internet opinions and benchmarks.. ruby today is pretty fast. In the company that I work, we do a lot of system programming using ruby, web development, etc.. It came to substitute perl around 2005, and we still using it successfully today. When we need something really, really fast, specially including parallel processing and etc, we just use jruby.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, now i can confidently use this to check a string is float def is_float?(fl) fl =~ /(^(\d+)(\.)?(\d+)?)|(^(\d+)?(\.)(\d+))/ end
Forgot the minus sign! Doesn't Ruby allow scientific notation for floats?
Any example on this ? I'm not sure about it.
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#20> because it indicates very precisely where the end is likely to be missing
Which means the `end` keyword can be elimilated all together :D