[BOBOTWINSTON]

I find it really amazing when a language's weakness drives an unintended strength to evolve like this.

Ruby Example:

Ruby projects tend to always have really well maintained test suites. The language makes it easy for you to introduce non-obvious bugs or write unreadable (yet efficient) meta code.

This has lead to 1) very mature testing frameworks (meh) and 2) high adoption and usage of these frameworks (actually impressive).

Funny enough, I think adoption of IDEs is extremely low in the Ruby world. 90% of the developers I interact with in my city are on Sublime/VSC/Vim. I've seen some pretty impressive usage of Rubymine that has made me curious, but never bothered to really spend time with it myself. I'd be really curious what the teams at GitHub/Stripe/[Insert big Ruby company] typically use editor-wise.

[codeduck]

I do most of my ruby work in rubymine. I use it not so much for the IDE tools like refactoring etc, but because I can use it to condense multiple bash sessions into a single UI. I also use pycharm and IDEA, and certainly in IDEA's case I use it primarily because it's the best-in-class Java IDE.

[albemuth]

> condense multiple bash sessions into a single UI

How does it compare to tmux/screen?

[codeduck]

Haven't used tmux much, and last time I used screen was over 10 years go. Rubymine gives me my iterative test results, multiple independent launch commands, the ability to run a single rspec test, refactoring support, autocompletion, a coherent gem environment, debugging etc all in one place. Yes, I could do all this on the cli, but I'm lazy, and Rubymine means I don't need to.