Show HN: Compile Ruby to C

Re:Show HN: Compile Ruby to C by non-entity on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:54PM (#24539638)

I was intrigued by it for a while. I can remember the jokes from years ago that it should be renamed the Rails programming language. I find it a shame when an otherwise interesting language gets pigeonholed into single framework.

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Re:Show HN: Compile Ruby to C by chillfox on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:32AM (#24540134)

For sure. Ruby is great for things other than rails, like automation, writing server scripts, and of course small api servers/web sites using sinatra.

I use it all the time and still haven't actually done anything with Rails.

The last thing I wrote in Ruby was a script to help manage my email inbox using imap.

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Re:Show HN: Compile Ruby to C by vidarh on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:34AM (#24540788)

I've worked with Ruby for ~15 years now, and I've used Rails maybe 2 of those and it was the worst experience.

I think Rails really was a very mixed blessing for Ruby - on one hand it brought a lot of people. On the other hand it associated the language with a whole lot of practices that has done long term damage.

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