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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by ElectricalUnion on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:23PM (#31728572)
> It's really not all that different from Python, JavaScript, Java and C#

I think that being able to dynamically replace behavior from almost anything at any point in your program is pretty much very different from Python, Java and C#.

The only other mainstream language with this capacity is Erlang, and Erlang is not exactly what I would call mainstream language.

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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by BlargMcLarg on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:42PM (#31728807)
And you believe that Ruby both does not make it easy to learn this concept and makes aggressive use of this concept?

I believe you're severally overestimating the impact and importance of one quirk when many developers are picking up wildly differing languages and decently successful at it all the time.

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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by corrral on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:42PM (#31728803)
> I think that being able to dynamically replace behavior from almost anything at any point in your program is pretty much very different from Python, Java and C#.

Javascript is pretty popular.

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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by ElectricalUnion on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:46PM (#31729803)
I'm pretty sure Java != Javascript?
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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by corrral on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:50PM (#31729871)
Sure, but it's a very popular language that puts the ability to modify behavior at run-time front and center. It's not like Ruby is special in that regard.
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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by weatherlite on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:52PM (#31728950)
> I think that being able to dynamically replace behavior from almost anything at any point in your program is pretty much very different from Python

How so - Python is dynamic. Django does quote some magic (e.g defining methods on the fly etc).

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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by ElectricalUnion on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:43PM (#31729744)
Python is dynamic but doesn't provide an easy way for you to change the types the language provides, while that is more or less expected in Ruby.
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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by weatherlite on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:46PM (#31729802)
Looks pretty straightforward to me https://gist.github.com/fwenzel/622519
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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by ElectricalUnion on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:31PM (#31734444)
That is not a language provided primitive?
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