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Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
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Hmm, I don't have too large of a sample size, but I don't feel like Ruby programs are buggier than Python programs, on average. Not being the language for programming beginners and data scientists, probably aides that impression, though...
Not buggier than Python is a really low bar.
I think it was that back when it was relevant (but replace data scientists with web devs)
I never got interested in the ecosystem myself, but I've run into it every now and then. I feel like it's in the same place as PHP today: still used a lot for legacy reasons, but you'll get weird looks if you start a new project with it and you're under the age of 40
Sure, but if programs from that era are still around, chances are the maintainer is quite experienced by now and has fixed all the funky behaviour. 🙃
Ten years ago, a university buddy of mine discovered Ruby and you might've thought a miracle happened from how excited he was for it. But yeah, that was also the last time I met someone in real life who was excited about Ruby. 😅