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RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
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Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#22This is a beautiful API. Thanks for the work. Here's hoping for a nice ruby agent framework in the near future too!
Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#23Why does this say it was posted four hours ago on the front page, four days ago on Agolia, 3 days ago on /from and the comments are all from minutes to hours ago here?
The threads have presumably been merged; look at the submitters in the history.
> 166 points|ksec|4 days ago|21 comments
> 168 points by ksec 4 hours ago
But yes; it’s a bit dodgy to resurface old news like this imo and pretend it’s new news.
I’d go as far as to say that being at #1, under the circumstances, means it’s been artificially boosted somehow.
I haven’t the foggiest why anyone would bother though.
Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#24Why does this say it was posted four hours ago on the front page, four days ago on Agolia, 3 days ago on /from and the comments are all from minutes to hours ago here?
The threads have presumably been merged; look at the submitters in the history. > 166 points|ksec|4 days ago|21 comments > 168 points by ksec 4 hours ago But yes; it’s a bit dodgy to resurface old news like this imo and pretend it’s new news. I’d go as far as to say that being at #1, under the circumstances, means it’s been artificially boosted somehow. I haven’t the foggiest why anyone would bother though.
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Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#25This is a beautiful API. Thanks for the work. Here's hoping for a nice ruby agent framework in the near future too!
saw this the other day: https://github.com/activeagents/activeagent
haven't tried it yet though
Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#26Such a breath of fresh air compared to poor DX libraries like langchain
I’ve found the Ruby community really cares about DUX. Not sure why it’s not in other language communities
I don’t really mean this to be derogatory toward people who enjoy other things, but Ruby is a language and ecosystem by and for people who have taste.
Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#27Saw this gem of a gem on reddit earlier today and there were some trollish comments about no one using ruby anymore blah blah blah which quietly bummed me out. Surprised and Delighted to see it as #1 here on HN tonight!
> some trollish comments about no one using ruby anymore
It is somewhat objectively true:
https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages
https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GitHub-Octove...
It doesn't mean much, and this library can be reproduced in any of those top 10 languages from what I can tell.
Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#28I am writing some LLM-based app scripts, this feels like a breeze!
Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#29Saw this gem of a gem on reddit earlier today and there were some trollish comments about no one using ruby anymore blah blah blah which quietly bummed me out. Surprised and Delighted to see it as #1 here on HN tonight!
> some trollish comments about no one using ruby anymore It is somewhat objectively true: https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GitHub-Octove... It doesn't mean much, and this library can be reproduced in any of those top 10 languages from what I can tell.
Is position #10 in https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages bad?
It ranks right after Shell (#8) and C (#9). Ruby is still a mainstream language, and it's fairly easy to find a Ruby job. Compare that to Clojure or Haskell.
Re: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> some trollish comments about no one using ruby anymore It is somewhat objectively true: https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GitHub-Octove... It doesn't mean much, and this library can be reproduced in any of those top 10 languages from what I can tell.
Is position #10 in https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages bad? It ranks right after Shell (#8) and C (#9). Ruby is still a mainstream language, and it's fairly easy to find a Ruby job. Compare that to Clojure or Haskell.
It has dropped in popularity and has never regained the popularity it once held.
Of the many developers who used to write Ruby (myself included), I would wager not many of those same people still do.