Ruby the good, bad and ugly

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:15:14 +0000

The first time Ruby genuinely surprised me, I was reading someone else’s code and understood it on the first pass without running it. That sounds trivial until you’ve spent a week deciphering a clever one-liner in another language. Ruby reads like a slightly terse version of what you’d say out loud — 3.times { puts "hi" }, [1, 2, 3].select(&:even?) — and that legibility is not an accident. Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto started designing the language in 1993 and released it publicly in 1995 with an explicit, almost stubborn goal: optimise for the happiness of the programmer, not the convenience of the compiler. Nearly every strength and every wart in Ruby traces back to that one decision.

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Ruby the good, bad and ugly