Ruby for Good

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Post by mooreds » Sun, May 24, 2026, 3:49 PM UTC

Ruby for Good
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Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

The actual Ruby for Good website has more information: https://rubyforgood.org/

Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by block_dagger » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.

Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by BirAdam » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

block_dagger wrote: post #3

I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.

Why go halfway with Rust when you could just pick Ada SPARK? Seems like an arbitrary choice based off of rationalizing a trend.

Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by lfx » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

block_dagger wrote: post #3

I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.

I understand why rust, but why TS? just for a front end?

Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by blacksmith_tb » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

block_dagger wrote: post #3

I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.

That seems like it would depend quite a bit on the project? I would think many nonprofits would want a webapp of some flavor, and Ruby (or Python) are still not bad choices there - my experience with Claude is that it handles Ruby well.

Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by firesteelrain » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

BirAdam wrote: post #4

block_dagger wrote: post #3

I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.

Why go halfway with Rust when you could just pick Ada SPARK? Seems like an arbitrary choice based off of rationalizing a trend.

Because you pick Ada Spark if are in a certification heavy environment like Aerospace.

Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by throwaway613746 » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

block_dagger wrote: post #3

I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.

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Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by mdavidn » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

lfx wrote: post #5

block_dagger wrote: post #3

I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.

I understand why rust, but why TS? just for a front end?

Compiler errors help the chatbot find and fix problems. The equivalent in Ruby, RBS, isn't as widely adopted. Type annotations being in separate files is also inconvenient.

https://github.com/ruby/rbs

Re: Ruby for Good

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Post by m12k » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

block_dagger wrote: post #3

I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.

The typescript team themselves rewrote the compiler in Go to get better use of coding agents.