Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006)

Re:Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006) by zach43 on Saturday February 09, 2019 @07:37PM (#19125684)

i've always thought of Ruby as a very clean, elegant, ergonomic language to write tools in (based on a few months of experience working with it a few years ago).

I'm familiar enough with JS that i would primarily use JS now for web stuff, but Ruby is quite a nice language to use, and I wouldn't be surprised if its easier for beginners to learn than JS.

In any case I think that skills in any one of the popular 'big' higher level dynamically typed languages (Ruby, JS, Python) are fairly transferable to the others too.

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Re:Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006) by duncan-donuts on Saturday February 09, 2019 @08:06PM (#19125784)

I remember people suggesting I learn javascript when I first started out. I found the syntax of ruby way easier to understand in those early days, and found ways to actually build stuff when I didn’t really know what I was doing. Now I sort of miss ruby (while writing node/typescript all day everyday).

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Re:Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006) by h1d on Saturday February 09, 2019 @10:41PM (#19126252)

I agree. Mainly done PHP and Nodejs and lately helping on a ruby project but I like how it's more fun when other languages feel more tight.

I feel too bad that Python had taken over the position of Ruby more or less.

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