Part of a new series! Feel welcome to dip in and weigh in on a past question.
Let's say I've never used Ruby before. Can anyone give the run down of what the language does and why you prefer it? Feel free to touch on drawbacks as well.
Part of a new series! Feel welcome to dip in and weigh in on a past question.
Let's say I've never used Ruby before. Can anyone give the run down of what the language does and why you prefer it? Feel free to touch on drawbacks as well.
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Ruby is my comfort language. That may say more about me than about Ruby. For whatever reason, if I have a need to compute something algorithmically, and it's something reasonably simple, Ruby is what I reach for, mainly because in Ruby I'm less likely to hit the speed bump called "reading the manual." But that's because I've memorized a larger chunk of the Ruby manual than (say) the Python manual (I'm a student of mathematics so in theory I should be more in the Python orbit). So very likely it being my comfort language is not something about Ruby per se. As I said in my "Python pitch" in your series, I edit Python faster than I edit Ruby, but I think so much faster in Ruby that Ruby is still my comfort language. Doing every single Ruby exercise on Exercism is probably what addicted me to Ruby.
I've been using ruby quite extensively over the past 3 years, and I would describe it as the following:
Nothing more, nothing less. It's quite similar as Python, but with a few more syntaxic sugar (it allows you to write your code in many alternative ways, that I often find very pleasant to read, compared to other languages, which are generally more "rigid").
The places where it shines is when you has to write web applications, thanks to the beautiful Ruby on Rails framework, that allows, thanks to a well defined architecture, and good balance between presets and flexibility to quickly build new applications (and it comes with a very good ecosystem of libraries, called "gems")
So, to summarize:
Of course, it has drawbacks too, like:
I'll just leave my love letter to Ruby here 💕
Why do you love Ruby, actually? An ode.
Sylwia Vargas ・ Feb 21 '21 ・ 8 min read
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On the cons side, I would not suggest it for medium complexity code and/or code with a "long life" that will require maintenance in the future. Duck and dynamic typing is nice for its flexibility, but when the code is too complex it gets difficult to keep track of the type of the different variables and this makes maintenance more difficult (at least, according to my experience)
Being the co-founder of Forem, which technically implies that you are omniscient about the language, i think this is the best occasion to pitch us on ruby.
Active Record(IMO still one of the best ORMs)
Whether this is a good or a bad thing depends entirely on what you need the language for 😉
Ruby is a force multiplier.
Jekyll ...? ;)
如果我自己开一个公司,我肯定用ruby,因为效率高,写着舒适。
There are two main reasons I fell in love with Ruby: 1) Ruby optimizes for developer happiness, 2) Ruby on Rails
General request, could you do a pitch me on Elixir series?
Ruby has a lot of room to reinvent the wheel. This is one of the reasons I love Ruby.