I used to work at a Ruby shop. As a language, Ruby can be elegant despite the overall weirdness, and some of my coworkers were really productive with it.
On the other hand, the Ruby community seems stuck in the 2000s, with some of the self inflicted Ruby pains and attitude being fairly similar to what some Python devs were doing in the late Python 2 era.
These days, I still like Ruby and I would enjoy building some little project with it, but I would rather make a living using other stuff.
Yep, it suffers from hipsteritis and inability to adapt consistently and sensibly to prefer the greater net good, and instead randomly prefers awkward, more troublesome workarounds. It's too much like a Perl 2.0 in some respects.
Curious if you have any examples of these pains? I'm not familiar with the late Python 2 era but I've been writing Ruby for a long time and wonder if I'm doing some of these as well.
On the other hand, the Ruby community seems stuck in the 2000s, with some of the self inflicted Ruby pains and attitude being fairly similar to what some Python devs were doing in the late Python 2 era.
These days, I still like Ruby and I would enjoy building some little project with it, but I would rather make a living using other stuff.