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Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by cjohnson318 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:09AM (#34247300)
I don't know about corporate adoption. I started programming around 2008 or so, and the first things I encountered outside of grad school were Ruby and Python. At first I used Ruby because I felt like anything I wrote "just worked", but later I switched to Python because there was just "one way to do things", and also because of NumPy/SciPy/Jupyter.
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Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by michaelteter on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:19PM (#34249288)
The thing is, the “one way” is not at all true now. Maybe it was then.

Today’s landscape is better but also very different. And when looking up how to do certain things in Python, Stackoverflow will show you a multitude of options.

The problem for me is that I dislike most of them.

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Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by cjohnson318 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:08PM (#34254981)
> The thing is, the “one way” is not at all true now.

Agreed. It was a smaller language then, but it's never been as expressive as Ruby.

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