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How Ruby Went Off the Rails (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/Technology@programming.dev

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EDIT: archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20250929132913/https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/

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[–] whereyaaat@lemmings.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Never really cared much for the ruby ecosystem. I tried learning it a long time ago, but then decided to switch to Python. It has a nice name, but it feels like one of those languages people learn to be different.

Since then, I've moved on to Rust and can't really see a reason to stick with ruby other than for legacy systems.

Also, why did this trend of repeating quotes in massive font sizes take off for articles? Thanks for the archive link, fuck whoever pays these morons.

Arko told me he objected to that decision because of DHH’s “horrifying, racist, misogynist, politics” and DHH’s “personal vendetta” against him.

Yeah, you'd have to pay me to work with someone like this.

[–] ArtemZ@maga.place 1 points 5 days ago

I feel like Scala went in the same direction and I believe sbt failure is a huge part of it. They should have adapted maven from the beginning but instead developed this finicky tool which failed Scala. Java is thriving at the same time because maven is stable and bulletproof.

It's insane how important package management and ecosystem is for a language.

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

Anyone get any steam forking them yet?

Kinda makes me wonder whether such things as Ruby Gems can and should be distributed. Sounds like alternatives to Bundler are already in the works. I suppose supply chain attacks would be the weakness on a distributed model.