I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
It's weird. Everyone seems to think it's easy to read, but I find it's a pain - I'm constantly scooting my eyes back and forth trying to translate it into something that makes sense to me. A lot of the syntax seems to have been implemented just for the hell of it rather than for any good reason, and I've never learned to use it beyond the basics.
What I'm saying is, it might well be a great language, but its first impressions always put me off.
Also, A lot of things in Ruby have more than one syntax in order to allow for various styles from prior languages, so you may have come across a strange code base.
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It's weird. Everyone seems to think it's easy to read, but I find it's a pain - I'm constantly scooting my eyes back and forth trying to translate it into something that makes sense to me. A lot of the syntax seems to have been implemented just for the hell of it rather than for any good reason, and I've never learned to use it beyond the basics.
What I'm saying is, it might well be a great language, but its first impressions always put me off.
What prior languages do you know?
Also, A lot of things in Ruby have more than one syntax in order to allow for various styles from prior languages, so you may have come across a strange code base.