[wbkang]

I also explored why Ruby is so hard to learn for people like me on my blog [1]. I totally agree with you. I had to use Ruby at work and I really struggled to grok it. I've picked up many programming languages in my career but Ruby was one of the hardest to really understand.

[1] https://wbk.one/article/a463c360/the-ruby-tutorial-i-wish-i-...

[czbond]

To me, Python felt like R. Designed by an academic - possibly without computer science knowledge. In a manner where humans bow to how a computer does things. Whereas a similar language of the time, C++ was a more properly designed language.

Ruby more like a philosophy major designing an OOP language - getting done and enjoying getting there were the goals. I took to Ruby more because i never cared about the "engineering" part of languages - just using them as tools to get things done.