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by anonunivgrad 2034 days ago
It is a lovely language to use but it provides a few footguns too many. The main problem is that the community suffers from bad taste.
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The community is the reason Ruby is amazing. And Matz is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. So genius, yet so humble.
The language and standard library are great. I mean that there's a tendency in the third-party libraries to abuse the features of the language for the sake of cute syntax and in the process create a difficult to understand beast where a more straightforward library would do.