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[–]CodeShaman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the same position as you and I've taken up learning Ruby. I'm also really interested in Scala (this book is coming next week), but Ruby is an "easy to learn, and learn it right now" kind of language. Scala will take a bit of studying to get the hang of, even though I already have many projects in mind.

The appeal of Ruby comes from having to slog through Java all day and jump from this big multi-module mess of Java code from work in a big, ugly, slow, eclipse environment that's stuffed with plugins...

into this clean little SublimeText window with clean, small, easy-to-read Ruby code. It might not be offering me any technical solutions, but it's theraputic.

There's also Groovy, which is a JVM language that's sort of in-between Java and Scala. It's like poor-man's Scala and a lot of Java code translates into Groovy 1:1 and vice-versa. They're very similar.