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Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"

128 pointsby robbyrussellyesterday at 6:16 PM138 commentsview on HN

Related: Ruby is not a serious programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106596


Comments

madmaniakyesterday at 6:59 PM

Well said.

badlibrarianyesterday at 7:01 PM

There are major gaps in platforms slapped together in the VC Party / Ruby era that seem to have unresolvable tech debt. Or perhaps Ruby just attracts the types of people who would rather talk about F1 racecars on Twitter than instruct a few of their thousands of employees to fix the shipping calculator.

Ruby was not designed to be a serious language. It was designed to be fun like PHP but not ugly like PHP. Meanwhile PHP grew up and Ruby grew out.

It's okay to love a thing and realize that it has some unsolvable issues and some people around it destined to keep it that way. Most things are like that these days.