Re:Ruby 2.1.3 is released
by dragonwriter on Friday September 19, 2014 @05:27PM
(#8342586)
> And yet -- I feel like Ruby is growing stagnant.
I don't think that's really true. Its true that the releases since 1.9 (which, despite the wonky versioning, was in a sense the last thing that was really a major version bump for Ruby, similar to Python 3.0 -- and dealing, in a different way, with many of the same issues, particularly string encoding) have been less "big feature" releases, there've been significant but less-disruptive new features (both structural language features like named parameters and core / standard library enhancements) since then.
I don't think that's really true. Its true that the releases since 1.9 (which, despite the wonky versioning, was in a sense the last thing that was really a major version bump for Ruby, similar to Python 3.0 -- and dealing, in a different way, with many of the same issues, particularly string encoding) have been less "big feature" releases, there've been significant but less-disruptive new features (both structural language features like named parameters and core / standard library enhancements) since then.