Using Ruby in 2019

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Post by jmcharnes » Wed, Jan 02, 2019, 8:25 PM UTC

Using Ruby in 2019
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Re: Using Ruby in 2019

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Post by claudiug » Wed, Jan 02, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC

my concern with ruby. is difficult to see the next feature or what the core devs are planning. You have to allways follow: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org, there is no clear process.

Also, I would like to see the new language changes use more in ruby.

Is a shame that ruby has features that other languages use as super crazy amazing, magical way of doing stuff.

Also, I would like to see it faster, I would like fibers to become more visible to ruby community.

Is a shame that ruby is not in the ML/AI/NLP as other languages. I see people complain about ruby, and how python is the golden boy of languages, but I totally dont like stuff like `__wow__`, `method(self, stuff):`, `@amazing_annotation`, `:= stuff` here, `[for x in y if]`, no so much functional stuff, class with uppercase and other with lowercase. sorry for my rant :)

Re: Using Ruby in 2019

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Post by sephoric » Wed, Jan 02, 2019, 9:10 PM UTC

Ruby was one of many languages to spike in popularity due to being a novel way to approach programming, and everyone I know has moved on from it. But I find it very valuable for one-off scripts that are too complex to write in Bash. I actually used Ruby to compile my app's documentation from sources into a JSON file, and it was easy to update the Ruby code every time I added more features or needed to change how the documentation was generated. It let me write it in a mostly functional way without being too confusing, and it was already installed on my system. But for web apps, no way am I choosing Ruby. I've moved on to Node.js from Ruby years ago, and haven't looked back. Modern JavaScript is much more "clean" than Ruby to me.

Re: Using Ruby in 2019

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Post by claudiug » Wed, Jan 02, 2019, 9:19 PM UTC

sephoric wrote: post #3

Ruby was one of many languages to spike in popularity due to being a novel way to approach programming, and everyone I know has moved on from it. But I find it very valuable for one-off scripts that are too complex to write in Bash. I actually used Ruby to compile my app's documentation from sources into a JSON file, and it was easy to update the Ruby code every time I added more features or needed to change how the…

Modern JavaScript is much more "clean" than Ruby to me. Can you gimme some example. I found the exactly oposite :))

Re: Using Ruby in 2019

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Post by stanislavb » Wed, Jan 02, 2019, 9:25 PM UTC

claudiug wrote: post #4

sephoric wrote: post #3

Ruby was one of many languages to spike in popularity due to being a novel way to approach programming, and everyone I know has moved on from it. But I find it very valuable for one-off scripts that are too complex to write in Bash. I actually used Ruby to compile my app's documentation from sources into a JSON file, and it was easy to update the Ruby code every time I added more features or needed to change how the…

Modern JavaScript is much more "clean" than Ruby to me. Can you gimme some example. I found the exactly oposite :))

I'd second that statement. I'm writing both, and modern JS is much better than what it was before but nowhere close to dev productivity compared to Ruby.