Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
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Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
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Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#2Ruby rescued me from a life of non-programming. I'm happy to see 2.0 inching closer.
I graduated Physics in 1995 and my programming experience had been hobbyist on my Apple II at home as a kid or on my Physics course projects, in simple languages. All my friends went into tech in some way or other mostly programming. I looked at C but after a little poking it scared the heck out of me and, intimidated I gave up and did slmethjng else. Only when I had to did I come back to trying programming 15 years later and discovering Ruby I learned that I could, and that I can. I've loved it ever since.
Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#3Ruby pulled me out of C# hell and allowed me to see other open source stacks and for that I love it. I'm so happy now that I can work with a clean language with a small difficulty curve.
I look like a wizard to management!
I'm not working on projects with millions of daily users, just simple CRUD enterprisey apps, and Ruby and Rails are my Virgil, guiding me through programming hell. :P
Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#4Why do we have a post about the release candidate? Is this to raise awareness for the release or something. It doesn't seem to make sense to post about all version. If we did this, Chrome browser would be nuts considering how many versions it goes through!
Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#5Ruby rescued me from a life of non-programming. I'm happy to see 2.0 inching closer. I graduated Physics in 1995 and my programming experience had been hobbyist on my Apple II at home as a kid or on my Physics course projects, in simple languages. All my friends went into tech in some way or other mostly programming. I looked at C but after a little poking it scared the heck out of me and, intimidated I gave up and d…
Languages like ruby and python democratize programming. Learning programming with C is like having a 25 years old mother of 2 as your first girlfriend.
Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#6Why do we have a post about the release candidate? Is this to raise awareness for the release or something. It doesn't seem to make sense to post about all version. If we did this, Chrome browser would be nuts considering how many versions it goes through!
sure... but ruby is on a yearly release cycle and i don't know about you but this does get me pretty excited. brings out the fan boy in me ;-)
also it gives me heads up that hey new release of ruby coming out soon, maybe i should go test the gems i maintain and make sure they're going to be compatible. RC2 is pretty close to p0
Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#7Why do we have a post about the release candidate? Is this to raise awareness for the release or something. It doesn't seem to make sense to post about all version. If we did this, Chrome browser would be nuts considering how many versions it goes through!
I guess maybe because a release candidate of Ruby might be the "final" Ruby 2.0.0 and it can make gem mainteners want to check their code compatibility. Web developers have difficulties keeping their website up to date with all browser, so it can be overkill to try to keep up with release candidate of every browser.
Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#8Why do we have a post about the release candidate? Is this to raise awareness for the release or something. It doesn't seem to make sense to post about all version. If we did this, Chrome browser would be nuts considering how many versions it goes through!
> It doesn't seem to make sense to post about all version.
2.0.0 is kind of a big deal. It's not just any random version.
Furthermore, projects always have trouble getting people to actually use release candidates. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen a project where two or three RCs get released, issues are fixed, and when final comes out, people complain "omg there's so many bugs." They would have been fixed for final if you'd tried the RC!
Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#9Ruby pulled me out of C# hell and allowed me to see other open source stacks and for that I love it. I'm so happy now that I can work with a clean language with a small difficulty curve. I look like a wizard to management! I'm not working on projects with millions of daily users, just simple CRUD enterprisey apps, and Ruby and Rails are my Virgil, guiding me through programming hell. :P
Curious what were the worst pain points of C# for you?
Re: Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
#10Ruby rescued me from a life of non-programming. I'm happy to see 2.0 inching closer. I graduated Physics in 1995 and my programming experience had been hobbyist on my Apple II at home as a kid or on my Physics course projects, in simple languages. All my friends went into tech in some way or other mostly programming. I looked at C but after a little poking it scared the heck out of me and, intimidated I gave up and d…
Languages like ruby and python democratize programming. Learning programming with C is like having a 25 years old mother of 2 as your first girlfriend.
Ha! So true.
I am currently teaching my 8yo programming, or rather in the process of building a set of teaching tools for her - right now things are very early stage, and she's busy playing VIM Adventures to familiarize herself to the keyboard and keystrokes. I'm trying to decide between Ruby and Python, which has the highly recommended Snake Wrangling For Kids going for it.