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A comment on Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?.

Re:Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT i... by krapp on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:56AM (#20644596)
Ruby. I just think it's ugly.
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Re:Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT i... by ps101 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:24AM (#20644853)
Isn't it also kind of dying out in terms of popularity? (I really don't know)
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Re:Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT i... by catacombs on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:27AM (#20644891)
It's slowly being replaced by Python. The only reason to use Ruby nowadays is for Rails.
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Re:Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT i... by jolmg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:45PM (#20647916)
Ruby is still the language I turn to when I need to write a script and the shell does not suffice. I turn to it before Python because it's more terse while still being very readable.
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