Re:Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
by hexbinencoded on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:37AM
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I left Ruby because the performance and security weren't improving and the community was slowly dying. I delved into Go before that got flooded with newbs, then looked at Crystal and Pony, before settling on Rust and Haskell for most things.
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I see comments like this often and I find them deeply confusing. To me, it seems like most of the different programming/scripting languages you've listed excel at completely different things. I would be curious to hear what type of work you're doing where all of these languages have been, in some form or another, appropriate.
How do you choose all this? I haven't been able to make a single decision for what language to use at work for the past 15 years. I thought wouldn't touch C#, ruby, delphi, kotlin and python but it all happened because someone was paying.
> I haven't been able to make a single decision for what language to use at work for the past 15 years.
Hello PHP.
Re:Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
by joelbluminator on Saturday September 26, 2020 @05:14AM
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In 5 years I bet you'd "settle" into some other new shiny language with "better" everything. There'll be a more right tool for the job.
Nothing wrong with that mentality, I just prefer to settle with my tool of choice and call it a career.