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by dnautics 1608 days ago
I can't put my finger on it. I love ruby, but often times digging deeper into Ruby source code, I would hit a point where I would think, "oh God, I give up, this is magic". Comparing it to elixir, my daily driver, is like night and day. Usually I can figure out what is happening (there are a few places, like Phoenix Routes and Ecto Query Builders where I have gotten stimied). Zig is even better - especially at the stdlib level