Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by freehunter on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:39PM (#23470638)

I'm not the original person so I have no idea what their experience is, but I feel pretty much the same. Every time I work in a language other than Ruby, it feels like programming. When I work in Ruby the language feels almost effortless. I wish I could do everything in Ruby and it frustrates me when there is something I can't make work in Ruby. Especially Rails, everything that works works so smoothly. When it doesn't work I get very frustrated and switch to another language only to find out its even harder in another language.

I don't like programming. I like it when the computer does what I tell it to do. I find that drastically easier to accomplish in Ruby (especially Rails).

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by cosmojg on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:30PM (#23471117)

What are your thoughts on Crystal?

See: https://crystal-lang.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by karmakaze on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:04AM (#23473804)

Would you like to pay now (compile time) or later (runtime)?

We have ways of dealing with scaling of runtime in production (develop infrastructure environment).

There's no way I know to speed up the edit/compile/run loop during development.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by ativzzz on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:00PM (#23473099)

It's ruby but with extra steps

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