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Ruby survives on affection, not utility. Let's move on.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251204034843/https://www.wired.com/story/ruby-is-not-a-serious-programming-language/

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[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

This mirrors my feelings about Ruby. Especially the lack of type hints. It's a huge problem when trying to work on large Ruby codebases, e.g. Gitlab or Asciidoctor. Easily doubles the time it takes to get anything done. Sometimes I've tried to make a change to Gitlab but had to give up entirely simply because it's impossible to follow the control flow.

That's very rarely a problem with statically typed languages. (It can happen with excessive use of interfaces that are resolved at runtime but it's much less common.)

So aside from Rails I can't really see any reason to use it over even Python, let alone actually good languages like Rust, Go, Typescript, etc.

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