Last year at Grill.rb conference Bozhidar Batsov (you may know him as Rubocop creator) gave a talk "Ruby.next", in which he presented his views abo...
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I feel like these are valid concerns for the Ruby community. I feel like Ruby isn't going downhill in any meaningful way any time soon but this is definitely all stuff to keep an eye on.
If Ruby goes down hill in the ways you're describing it would likely be a long and slow decline. It seems like things should be okay for a while.
Yes, I agree. This is not a call to abandon the ship. I just wanted to express my doubts about leadership in Ruby community.
I don't follow what you expect the pipe operator to do. I would expect it to work like a bash pipe that sends the output of the previous command to the input of the next.
That's what he meant. That we all wanted it to be.
Hmm, I see. I went through the PR in more detail. It appears that it has a lot of strong opinions, some in favor, some in opposition. I think it's a little dramatic to claim the future is bleak for Ruby because there is some disagreement about a minor feature addition. By that measure, Python is clearly on its death bed too.
The author has some very valid points, but I'd spin it the other way and say that the fact the community is advocating for changes means that there are people out there that really care about the language and its frameworks.
Ruby should start collaborating together and join forces with Crystal lang.
Wasn't everyone excited for JIT?
I was in the RailsConf talk about JIT in Ruby 2.7. They've been putting in some serious work to make real improvements. It has some real performance gains in compute intensive code.
After ~9 yrs of usage, I'm switching to Node.js.