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Discussion on: Why is your preferred programming language your go-to?

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Ben Halpern

As might be clear from my entries to your challenges, I’m a Rubyist. I play around with other things, and explore different things, but Ruby captured my heart and I haven’t looked back.

I’m super excited for Ruby 3.

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Andrea Pavoni

I've been a Rubyist for over a decade but, like you, I always explored new things, and now I settled mostly on Elixir as my go-to language for server-side web/apps.

I still use Ruby and Python for other quick/focused scripts or tasks.

I also appreciate Go, even if it's my last go-to, just when I need speed or portability (eg: deploy a binary in production)

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Peter Benjamin (they/them)

Last time I worked with Ruby (3-4 years ago), I heard about the Ruby 3x3 initiative.
Any resource you can point me to for latest progress/news on Ruby v3?

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Ondrej

Ruby is my second go-to language right after Kotlin (I do primarily mobile apps) :) Great choice, you can't go wrong with Ruby.

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Ben Halpern

Kotlin definitely seems to get a lot of things right