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Re:Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp by rgoulter on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:57PM (#35499711)
Ruby is another language where I wouldn't want an unrestrained/undisciplined amount of smart/clever code.

My impression of Scala from a few years ago was that the language itself was so flexible (ranging from 'not quite Java' to 'not quite Haskell'), that you'd really want strict adherence to a particular style (or set of features) for a codebase to have hope of being maintainable.

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Re:Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp by michaelcampbell on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:31AM (#35502540)
I love and hate ruby for this reason. I'm working in it now, and it does allow some really fast-to-ship coding, but some of the LargeBrainedOne's framework stuff is so weirdly overly abstracted and metaprogramming'd ...

They'll write 500 lines of inscrutable framework code to save having to write 5 lines of boilerplate 3 or 4 times.

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