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Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 by gfody on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:26AM (#47347554)
doesn’t forcing your agent to think in ruby put it at huge disadvantage though? since the language isn’t that popular it can’t have learned it as well as say python or Java?
Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 by barrkel on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:55AM (#47347742)
Claude munches through Ruby just fine, all day long.
Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 by vidarh on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:44AM (#47347671)
The frontier models all handle Ruby just fine. So does th cheap Chinese models like Mini, Qwen, Deepseek.
Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 by hrmtst93837 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:28AM (#47348729)
Python does have a bigger pool of examples, but agents usually get tripped up by missing context about specific frameworks more than by language syntax. The real obstacle for LLMs is understanding Rails' implicit conventions and magic, not the Ruby language itself.