Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala

Re:Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by... by rogerbinns on Thursday June 13, 2013 @04:48AM (#5872929)

I'm a Python developer and find a lot of the Ruby criticism in those slides weird. For example you can also monkey patch in Python, but I only recall using it once in the last several years to fix a bug in one method in the standard library. Similarly it isn't a Python pattern to want to write 2.gigabytes.

Are the Ruby complaints in the slides real - do people do those sort of things often and expect other languages to behave like that too? Is that because of the standard library or innate to the language?

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Re:Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by... by ldub on Thursday June 13, 2013 @02:55PM (#5875890)

I don't know about expecting other languages to behave like [that] too, but the Ruby community certainly does a lot of monkey patching. When I was developing in Ruby I saw this often and it annoyed me a bit.

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