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Re:Introducing Rubinius X by Mikeb85 on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @11:39AM (#6553884)
Rails is a curse. Because of it, Ruby (which is a fantastic language) has been reduced to a web language, when it's really much more than that.
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Re:Introducing Rubinius X by jaredonline on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @12:00PM (#6554068)
Ruby was a little-known project before Rails came along. Without Rails, we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.
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Re:Introducing Rubinius X by the_watcher on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @01:55PM (#6555027)
I never would have been exposed to Ruby if not for Rails (I'm a novice, self taught developer). While everyone talks about how amazing Scala and Haskell are (of which I have no doubt), I learned Ruby because Rails allowed me to build little projects (usually web apps) very easily. Now I have branched out into a bit of node.JS, some Python, and some Clojure (I like the idea of learning a Lisp), but Rails was a friendly entry point.
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