Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by Roboprog on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:15PM (#17210937)

Stack Overflow works pretty well.

But perhaps not without some pain for those involved making it: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by emodendroket on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:39AM (#17214302)

I've done legacy work in both and I'd never choose Ruby over C#. It might be a little faster to write the code the first time around, but maintaining a big legacy project stinks.

Also, none of Atwood's reasons is "I don't like working in C#." And several of the concerns in this post are obsolete.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by Roboprog on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @06:29PM (#17251657)

Actually, I find Ruby code much easier to look at than most Java / C# UglyCapsRunOn word-soup. YMMV.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by emodendroket on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:54PM (#17253126)

Well who cares about that, really. I'm not talking about how pretty the code is; I'm talking about the ease of maintaining it. Ruby code frequently requires digging through the method and methods it calls to figure out the expected input.

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