I just don’t get why people stuck around Ruby to this point. Python checks the same boxes, it’s way more popular, and it’s run by fairly well adjusted people.
Python Drama: “Some APIs broke.”
Ruby Drama: “Major project leader went white nationalist.”
@sandofsky Ruby is more ergonomic and has better reflection than Python.
Also coming from Swift, it is easier to reason about (especially around closures compared to Python's whitespace approach):
https://confuzeus.com/posts/python-ruby-readability
If you ever need to do backend, nothing comes close to Rails in terms of speed, ecosystem (mastodon!), and "tinkerability" (check pry and rails console).
@danielinoa I spent five years writing Ruby full time, and that’s all surface level garbage that amounts to little, long term. You brain adjusts to language quirks and you move on.
A stable platform, simple constructs, and solid libraries maintained by grownups will make you more productive than syntax that looks pretty at first glance.
@sandofsky From personal experience I think Ruby has the surface level sugar that some like but also well-maintained libraries (could name a bunch).
Thanks to the contributions by the grownups at companies like Shopify, Stripe, and Github, to name a few I remember.
Ben Sandofsky
Daniel