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by 0x3444ac53 4 days ago
I've never been more thoroughly convinced that I would like ruby more than from this article. I'm currently stuck reaching for python a lot of the time (absolutely love it tbc), but maybe it's worth changing things up and trying to give ruby a shot.

It was one of the first programming languages I was introduced to at 16 or so, but an older person that I looked up to told me it would get me stuck in "hobby coder land". He was wrong in so many ways, but even if he was right, I wanna have fun in my hobby code :)

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I've had one job in my life, still at the same company. (8 years).

I applied cause the listing mentioned Python, and I was programming in Python at the time.

Once I started they were like yeah we put that there to reach a broader public but we use Ruby (on Rails).

So that's what I learned. I've just returned to Python via LLM's. I literally have not felt the need nor desire to use Python once I got used to writing Ruby.

Tbc?
to be clear [IMO]
Correct.