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Discussion on: Is Ruby worth learning in 2019?

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apcampos

Ruby if anything else is major fun to play with. I never had so much satisfation writing code with such expressiveness. The ideas flow from your mind to your IDE really fast...
Also when you learn Ruby you become pretty much ready to jump to Elixir world.
And finally if you know Ruby you are very near to enjoy the amazing Crystal language ecosystem. Your ruby code (after some changes) will be just blazing fast!...
IMO Crystal will be a big thing in the future, so i think it's not a waste of time to learn Ruby today...

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Scott Simontis

This is where I am...I discovered two really amazing blogs that convinced me to experiment with Elixir and Rust. Unfortunately it looks like Raindrop.io is having an outage right now so I can't post the links. One of the bloggers was part of the Agile Manifesto writers and his experiences with how Agile was commercialized matched my viewpoint. He is a huge Elixir advocate now it reminds me of F#, which is always a good thing in my mind!