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Using the same language to write your frontend and backend is desirable for many people / teams.
but why does that language have to be one as braindead as javascript. path-dependency is the root of all evil.
Good news is we have WASM now, so you can write backend and frontend code in basically whatever language you want.
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It's the language with the highest ratio of (useful work / LOC), so it's the least verbose language. This makes it very suitable to write and understand complex scripts, because the reduced boilerplate means less cognitive overhead for the programmer. As a result, experienced programmers can be extremely productive with it. The well-known Rails framework uses this to great effect, however, some people argue that the…
I see some people saying that Ruby is too much "magic", while what is magic is Rails. Ruby itself can have its high useful work / LoC ratio thanks to its syntax. For example, you can spawn a thread with: thread = Thread.new do # thread code end ... thread.join In this example we can see that it's not magic, only concise. I wrote more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763640
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I see some people saying that Ruby is too much "magic", while what is magic is Rails. Ruby itself can have its high useful work / LoC ratio thanks to its syntax. For example, you can spawn a thread with: thread = Thread.new do # thread code end ... thread.join In this example we can see that it's not magic, only concise. I wrote more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763640
Creating a new thread is equally simple in Java: var thread = new Thread(() -> { // Thread code }); thread.start(); // ... thread.join();
Thread.new{ ... thread code ...}.join
The extra verboseness quickly adds up if every statement takes twice as much code.
Every year-end, I update my Rails app. Lately, it's been stable, and the updates just improve performance, so it's gotten easier.
I started at a company 3 years ago that was on Rails 5.1. After 3 years on and off work I've managed to get it to Rails 6.1. The process is such an incredible nightmare on a large app. Currently stuck on trying to get Ruby 3 working.
Hope ruby 4 had static type system like typescript.
Try Crystal if you want less dynamic typing.
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Ruby has the nicest object-oriented design (everything is an object) outside of smalltalk (IMHO). In contrast to the mess that is Python. For instance, in Ruby it is natural that each or map are methods of Array or Hash rather than global functions which receive an Array or Hash argument. This goes as far as having the not operator '!' as a method on booleans: false.! == true Once you have understood it, it is a very…
Everything is an object in Python, as well. Stuff like map() is generic iteration, over any structure that exposes iteration. When it's a member function, it means that every collection has to implement map itself basically. When it's separate, the collections only need to provide the interface needed to iterate over it, and the generic map() will just use that.
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huh. I'm not sure if I understood you right, do you script and configure those in ruby, or have you written them in ruby from scratch? Are the sources available to read/learn from?
They're written in Ruby from scratch. Some are available, e.g. the window manager is here: https://github.com/vidarh/rubywm Beware that one of the joys of writing these for my own use is that I've only added the features I use, and fixed bugs that matter to me, and "clean enough to be readable for me" is very different from best practice for a bigger project. I'm slowly extracting the things I'm willing to more gener…
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No wait, I know Oracle has a bad rep which is deserved, but TruffleRuby and GraalVM is truly open-source, not open-core. They actually did something great this time. Someone pointed this out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42323293
> You will need to sign the Oracle Contributor Agreement (using an online form) for us to able to review and merge your work. Read my lips: N. O. Read the CLA. This is a trap, do not get yourself or your company caught in it. It is open-source for now, until it gets enough traction. Then the rug will be pulled, the code will be relicensed as well as any further development or contributions. This is insane , I cannot…
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I see some people saying that Ruby is too much "magic", while what is magic is Rails. Ruby itself can have its high useful work / LoC ratio thanks to its syntax. For example, you can spawn a thread with: thread = Thread.new do # thread code end ... thread.join In this example we can see that it's not magic, only concise. I wrote more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763640
Creating a new thread is equally simple in Java: var thread = new Thread(() -> { // Thread code }); thread.start(); // ... thread.join();
Kotlin is another language that has this Ruby-style blocks for callbacks.