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Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Today, I'll lose at least 50 karma points, but it's worth: Why people still use Ruby? 1. Because they get dream day rates for maintaining rusty slow legacy systems 2. Because they do not want to learn new languages and can stay in their comfort zone 3. Because they think it's still 2005 and nobody cares about slow server response times And now Ruby lovers, click on downvote or give your reasons why you still use Ruby…

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Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Today, I'll lose at least 50 karma points, but it's worth: Why people still use Ruby? 1. Because they get dream day rates for maintaining rusty slow legacy systems 2. Because they do not want to learn new languages and can stay in their comfort zone 3. Because they think it's still 2005 and nobody cares about slow server response times And now Ruby lovers, click on downvote or give your reasons why you still use Ruby…

It's fun, it's clean, it's simple, and it works.

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Anyone have any thoughts on why python and ruby are so similar, yet so far apart? They are obviously very close, because people switch between them all the time. And they are compared on everything (languages features, libraries, tooling...). I think it's a healthy competitive environment.

I'm a huge Python fan and there is nothing in the world that would force me to switch to Ruby =P

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Today, I'll lose at least 50 karma points, but it's worth: Why people still use Ruby? 1. Because they get dream day rates for maintaining rusty slow legacy systems 2. Because they do not want to learn new languages and can stay in their comfort zone 3. Because they think it's still 2005 and nobody cares about slow server response times And now Ruby lovers, click on downvote or give your reasons why you still use Ruby…

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Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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I guess, Rubinius is no longer relevant? I remember it was a very promising project back in 2008.

Evan Phoenix (the creator) left in 2012 to work for LivingSocial. EngineYard, his former employer, had been funding work on it last I heard, but there haven't been any releases since 2011.

http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2012/03/28/a-new-door-opens/

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Today, I'll lose at least 50 karma points, but it's worth: Why people still use Ruby? 1. Because they get dream day rates for maintaining rusty slow legacy systems 2. Because they do not want to learn new languages and can stay in their comfort zone 3. Because they think it's still 2005 and nobody cares about slow server response times And now Ruby lovers, click on downvote or give your reasons why you still use Ruby…

Because it makes me happy.

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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Today, I'll lose at least 50 karma points, but it's worth: Why people still use Ruby? 1. Because they get dream day rates for maintaining rusty slow legacy systems 2. Because they do not want to learn new languages and can stay in their comfort zone 3. Because they think it's still 2005 and nobody cares about slow server response times And now Ruby lovers, click on downvote or give your reasons why you still use Ruby…

I like writing Ruby and the speed isn't at the point where it makes a difference. A much better argument would be pointing out the tens of serious security vulnerabilities this year. :)

Re: Ruby 2.0.0 Released

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post #10

Today, I'll lose at least 50 karma points, but it's worth: Why people still use Ruby? 1. Because they get dream day rates for maintaining rusty slow legacy systems 2. Because they do not want to learn new languages and can stay in their comfort zone 3. Because they think it's still 2005 and nobody cares about slow server response times And now Ruby lovers, click on downvote or give your reasons why you still use Ruby…

People still write PHP and it is even slower. And who writes web services in pure Ruby? The response speed depends very little on the language used.
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