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Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? by pull_my_finger on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:09PM (#29273734)
>Node.js comes so close but anemic standard library

The nodejs API is rather big really. If you're using Ruby as your standard of normal sized almost everything would look small in comparison, but "anemic" is a stretch. You'd really hate Lua.

If you're taking suggestions, you might enjoy Janet[1]. It has a pretty large user API, lots of bells and whistles included in the standard libs like you'd find in Ruby, and lots of different ways to achieve the same result like Ruby. It's been a while since I checked out the ecosystem, but I was _very_ happy with the Joy Framework[2]. It definitely doesn't come close to the scope of Rails, but I think it _does_ near Rails in it's easy of use for the developer with it's scaffolding, controller generation etc.

[1]: https://janet-lang.org/

[2]: https://github.com/joy-framework/joy

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Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? by chespinoza on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:56AM (#29277125)
>If you're taking suggestions, you might enjoy Janet[1].

Just curious about why you'd suggest going from a popular stack to Janet? I'd rather suggest Common Lisp as it's a way more stable, mature and standardized technology.

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Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? by kayodelycaon on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:04AM (#29276714)
Funny you should mention Lua. It’s a fun little language I very much enjoy. Lua isn’t typically used for business applications with heavy logic and a lot of data manipulation.
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