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Re:Ruby Still isn't dead by undoware on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:31PM (#16138142)
"Go, Visual Basic, Perl - all these are great, commonly used languages - are they dead or dying too? There’s no reason to think so."

Go is fine but yeah those other two are, uh, well.

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Re:Ruby Still isn't dead by ParamModule on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:39PM (#16138171)
Perl isn't dead so much as it's primarily only used in production by older sys admins but it still has a community that loves it, VB.NET is alive and well in Microsoft shops and among noob malware authors.

My definition of fucking dead is smalltalk. But this is coming from a guy who's favorite pls are erlang, SML/NJ, and Ocaml lol.

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Re:Ruby Still isn't dead by overloadrix on Saturday January 13, 2018 @05:17AM (#16139001)
> My definition of fucking dead is smalltalk

A curious definition. Not only Smalltalk is still used (e.g. in fintech), but it's intelectual virtues are always revisited and rediscovered by new generations who, invariably, try to come up with a "modern" version of it, or something inspired by it.

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Re:Ruby Still isn't dead by marvy on Monday January 15, 2018 @03:27PM (#16153128)
Like Ruby!
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Re:Ruby Still isn't dead by rurban on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:35AM (#16157433)
Like ruby? AFAIK nothing new ever came out of ruby. It was just a nice pure implementation of smalltalk on top of Perl. Of course the everything is a method strategy and unoptimized MOP burned them.

Just look at their new jit. Can anybody think of a worse strategy to implement a jit? There are serious technical and management problems. V Makarov at least wrote the register machine before the naive cc -> so jit, but then the Japanese came and even ripped that out.

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