[tferris]

OT and hijacking this thread:

1. Who is actually new to Ruby?

(After Ruby or rather the popular RoR is there almost for a decade everyone should have made some experiences with Ruby, so I am wondering if there are many new Rubiest)

2. What new language/stack did you start to learn recently?

(for me: Node.js)

[Pewpewarrows]

As a Python guy I never had any reason to need to learn Ruby. And even now that I'm playing around with it it's purely out of professional curiosity.

[verisimilidude]

For what it's worth, Ruby has always been more about "want" than "need" for me. When I really need to get something done, fast, I'll choose Python; Python always seems to have an esoteric-but-very-necessary lib for every situation. But Ruby is where I want to spend my fun time.

Opinions will differ, of course. Both languages are tops.

[bradleyland]

> Who is actually new to Ruby?

I suspect your comment is being buried for the pretentiousness of that question. Plenty of people are still new to Ruby, because you absolutely do not need Ruby to have a successful development career. Not to mention the population of individuals who are completely new to programming.

[vidarh]

As a heavy Ruby user who is also regularly hiring:

In my experience it is still vastly harder to hire someone with any degree of Ruby exposure vs. PHP developers, for example.

Ruby is still a niche language.

[alexbell]

That was narrow minded. You know it's possible to be a developer and never touch a web app stack professionally, right? Let alone the One True Language that is Ruby.