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by busterarm 205 days ago
Very similar story here.

I still somewhat "think in Ruby" though. It was really the first language that let me comfortably build large projects and really lean into metaprogramming. I prefer Elixir/Erlang for personal projects though.

Haven't lucked into an Elixir/Erlang job yet to experience working on such a codebase with others yet, so for that my preference is still C++.

Work makes me use Golang and Python and I find no joy in either. I still drop into Ruby if I need a small script for something personal.
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pmarreck 205 days ago
Ruby is 1000x better than Go or Python IMHO. Personal opinion, of course.

I've been lucky to work in Elixir jobs for a few years. Funny thing, though, I've been curious about getting closer to the metal after messing with LuaJIT and its C FFI and seeing the rather shocking performance (coming from a high-level scripting background). I content myself with converting some of my more unfortunately-sophisticated Bash utility functions to LuaJIT, which so far has been an all-positives experience.

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