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

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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