Re:Ask HN: As a developer what are your aha moments?
by Doctor_Fegg on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:31AM
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> First, I’d like to say I think starting with Ruby/Rails is a bad idea.
It's telling that comments like this inevitably involve Rails, not plain Ruby.
Rails's "magick" is obfuscatory and at times counter-intuitive. Ruby, the language, is pretty straightforward. I wish more people spent time playing with Ruby before diving into Rails.
It's telling that comments like this inevitably involve Rails, not plain Ruby.
Rails's "magick" is obfuscatory and at times counter-intuitive. Ruby, the language, is pretty straightforward. I wish more people spent time playing with Ruby before diving into Rails.