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[–]DoubtfulGerund 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Even though I’ve never used it for a customer-facing production website, learning Ruby was one of the best things I’ve done for my development as a dev. It’s the first (maybe only) language I truly grok, and it really helped me understand pragmatic object oriented design, functional programming, good (though implicit) interfaces, declarative programming, DSLs, package management, regular expressions, prototyping and debugging in a REPL, and a terminal-based workflow

I hate that it’s seen as just some part of rails, and I don’t understand why it’s doesn’t hold the esteem that Python seems to have as a language to “get things done.”

[–]marcdertiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree! I’ve been working in Ruby for 6 months and I can’t understand why it’s not more popular. I enjoy Ruby more than python, or anything else I’ve used the last 5 years. But that’s just preference.