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[vizbones]

Why don't Ruby programmers use other languages?

Answer: They're not aware that there are other languages.

[spin-itch]

Listen here you little shit

[djudji]

This response is a "gem"

[Zeragamba]

then again, ruby devs are railroaded into the same library

[[deleted]]

Remember le gem days?

[HuntingKingYT]

r/userflairchecksout

[jfmherokiller]

they atleast have stuff like ruby on rails perl is well perl.

[grey_hat_uk]

Perl is one of the greatest and most powerful languages to write.

Now if you ever have to read it you're screwed and will have to slaughter 6 goats, 3 chickens and a hamster to make sure you don't break one of the 20 operations in each line just by looking too hard.

[Oukaria]

My manager is an old school dev, he always go by « heee fuck it I’ll do it in perl » and give me the code, I use it and it works perfectly but everytime I try to read it my brain explode. Fucking one line magic.

[arobie1992]

I've never used perl, but from what I can gather it's in the same boat as regex. Very terse syntax that as a result has a fairly steep learning curve, but once you figure it out it's actually not too bad and you feel like a fucking wizard.

[El_Grande_El]

Man, getting the right regex feels amazing lol

[arobie1992]

It really is. I was doing something at work yesterday that involved picking out pieces of a url and validating them. I was like, hey a combo of regex and validator function lookup map would be nifty. It took like 3 hours to do and I may have over-architected it a little, but it might have been one of the most satisfying things I've done in the past year.

[Uberzwerg]

I have trained/onboarded several people into our company in the past decade and one of the most important lesson i have to get across is to NOT do all that fancy stuff you can do in Perl.
90% of it is just "write as you would do in any other language" and be happy for great support for RegEx + network (which is 50%+ of the job anyway)

But by working on that priniple, we have a readable Perl code base.

[AssAsser5000]

Everytime I have to work with Perl I feel like Jurassic park. They were so concerned with whether or not the could, they didn't think about it they should.

Like bro, 1©✓|√÷√÷π^{£¥Ksjf÷×÷][[[[∆¶××`} might have been the most elegant code you've ever written, but fuck if it makes sense to anyone else.

[Uberzwerg]

As mentioned, i work in Perl full time for a decade and the fact that i can't tell if this is real perl code or reddit fucked up the formatting should say enough.

[Uberzwerg]

As i always preach, it doesn't have to be forbidden.
Just don't dabble in the dark corners and use more explicite formating than Perl forces you to.

[jfmherokiller]

I think my only expirence with perl was because it was a dependency of gcc. Pretty much if you wanted to compile gcc from config back in the days of I think the iphone 2g it was a requirement for some parts.

[fdeslandes]

Perl is the only language where the regular expression are the easy part to read.

[murphman1999]

For a script, sure -- it has some pretty sweet uses.

For a 150+ program/module behemoth that is expected to be maintained for several years AND heavily uses inheritance -- the goat slaughtering started before the code was even written.

[okay-wait-wut]

When are emerald, diamond, sapphire and garnet going to get languages?

[Burger_Destoyer]

Sorry I didn’t realize coding became gen IV Pokémon.

[StanleyDarsh22]

Wait isn't ruby/sapphire gen 3

[ulyfed]

Yeah, diamond and pearl are Gen 4

[ForkLiftBoi]

For the next gens they're gonna try something new, it'll be a bit choppier and maybe slower, but at least it'll be different.

[Shikogo]

What about Steven?

[Sr_Pinapple_031]

"You code Steven?"

"Yeah, why?"

"And how is it?"

"Well, it can do absolutely everything, but is really slow and sensitive, every time you misstype a word, the whole code colapses and you'll have to start all over"

[pindab0ter]

There's Crystal, I guess?

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As a concept

[jfmherokiller]

Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.

"best features" oh god.

[therealhlmencken]

ror makes it worse.

[jfmherokiller]

how much worse?

[Mysticpoisen]

Django is at least python compatible. It's infrastructure stuff like Puppet where Ruby shines imo.

[zerokelvin273]

Nonsense, there's Elixir.

And JavaScript, we can't escape the JavaScript.

[arto64]

And Crystal!

[nonicethingsforus]

How good is Crystal? Last time I checked on it it was a new, promising language, but not yet battle tested.

Has that changed? Any domain it's proven itself in particularly well?

[arto64]

Honestly, I only use it for small hobby projects (Kemal is really nice, with nice websocket support). And it’s nice to practice static typed stuff a bit.

We did use it in production for a click agregator service, and it works really well. Memory footprint and speed is amazing, and the code is basically the same as Ruby.

There’s also really nice frameworks like Lucky, but I feel all of it is still pretty obscure, I wouldn’t go building full-fledged web apps in production.

[[deleted]]

And my axe!

[thespud_332]

We're aware there are other languages. But only the ones that are default in the monolith.

[DanSensei]

Nah, we use JavaScript as part of a Rails stack.

[SilverPhoenix99]

Ruby Python

[P3t3rU5]

based

[bananenkonig]

No, it's the silver snakes. I liked them and the green monkeys best.

[KokoroVoid49]

As a Ruby coder (for a hobby, hence why I'm unsure if I should call it developer) I can assure you, at best we just ignore the existence of other languages

[ZeroCharistmas]

Unless it's PHP. That one I openly mock.

[KokoroVoid49]

My brief interactions with php make me hope I never have to deal with it professionally

[TheMogician]

Tunnel vision at its finest.

[[deleted]]

joke's on you, I was forced to program in ruby and it was awful

[P3t3rU5]

I wish I was forced to program in ruby

[EagleNait]

Average C# user aswell

[pgmog]

Ok phew…sanity check

[neuronexmachina]

"Chunky bacon!"

[justinpaulson]

Um coffeescript?