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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by uncomputation on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:32PM (#25065356)
> It really is a pretentiousness held in a group of language zealots.

Can’t tell if this is ironic or not, but Rubyists are pretty well known as the friendliest out of all language communities, and have been for over a decade now

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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by WJW on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:35AM (#25068469)
From my experience both inside the Ruby community and out, it is pretty much exclusively Rubyists saying that about themselves. Almost every community I've seen considers itself inclusive and friendly.
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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by leetrout on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @09:18PM (#25065679)
No, I’m not being ironic. And as an entire, stereotyped group Rubyists sure are nice.

Pretentious doesn’t mean rude or unwelcoming and I don’t want to insinuate that.

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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by treeman79 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:14PM (#25066002)
We had the rock star solo developer phase.

Thankfully we grew out of it.

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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by antod on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:38PM (#25066150)
I don't think it was growing out of it so much as a lot of them went and chased the new shiny over at NodeJS.
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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by treeman79 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:49PM (#25066224)
That does explain so much about the node community.
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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by markdown on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:27AM (#25066766)
Not all of them were rock stars. Some we ninjas.
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