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0 pointslackoftactics24d ago0 comments

The worst part is communicating to the Ruby on Rails community that they have a problem with DX or that Rails is not really the top choice anymore for new startups. It's a cult of DHH. I am still mostly part of the Rails ghetto; it's paying my bills, but after gaining more experience during my computer science master's degree with statically typed languages, I clearly see the pitfalls of Ruby.

People often miss the difference between simple and easy. Yes, Ruby is easy, but it's not simple, and it will make you suffer a lot if you get to a complex app. The debugging sessions in Rails are a nightmare. Meanwhile Ruby community is acting like religion, it's almost impossible to convert people from Ruby to other languages, they don't see the language as tool, but as part of their identity

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drzaiusx1123d ago

Maybe I'm just not tapped into the community but I've been a ruby developer going on 6 years now and I find debugging ruby apps no better or worse than any other languages I've worked with over the years. It's fairly easy to instrument ruby much like all the other dynamic languages (python3, js, etc) but with better ergonomics. My main qualm with ruby is their reliance on external type files for type annotations. What a terrible idea. Should have just done inline optional types like python3 or typescript.

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