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		cageface on Sept 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby 3.0 Preview 1 In a sense Ruby is sort of a cleaned up Perl but maybe not cleaned up enough. I fell totally in love with it almost 20 years ago but these days I think we have better languages to choose from even if their ecosystems aren't always as rich.

cutler on Sept 26, 2020 [–]

You mean like Dart and Go? For expressivity I'll stick with dirty old Ruby, thanks.

cageface on Sept 29, 2020 | [–]

Ruby is expressive and makes for great short demos but becomes a nightmare to maintain in larger codebases with dynamic typing & implicit imports.

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