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by davexunit 1107 days ago
I think Ruby is a pretty good language and I spent many years using it professionally but I can't imagine having enough motivation to work on the language implementation when it's so difficult to even parse the code. The amount of engineering time spent on this topic is bonkers!
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Maybe I'm a masochist, but to be honest it's a dream job. Working on such a complex language and history is really really fun.