Ruby

[Knil92]

Hey,

 

just wondering if any one has tried the Ruby language and what their thoughts are about it? I've had a little look at it and it looks quite simple or is it just a deceptive language?

[dhicks]

just wondering if any one has tried the Ruby language and what their thoughts are about it?

 

Any answer and/or your usage of any language is going to be very context-dependant - can you give any more details on what you are trying to achive? Are you picking a general-purpose language to learn that has wide usage (which Ruby does, although mostly for web development), or do you have a specific usage in mind? If it's any help, I'm currently developing something using a couple of static site generators, one (Jekyll) written in Ruby, one (Hugo) written in Go. The Ruby-based tool was way more palavar to get set up, and wound up with a library version conflict with another tool. All solveable, and if I had more experience with Ruby I'm sure it'd have taken me a few minutes to fix, but the Go-based tool installed by simply being copied to the relevant computer and run, no other installation needed.

[Knil92]

Yeah, basically a general purpose things, I dont have something that I need to make right now, but at the minute I'm using visual studio and vb .net to make the stuff that I need.

[dhicks]

at the minute I'm using visual studio and vb .net to make the stuff that I need.

 

I find PythonAnywhere very handy as an environment that has everything you'd want already installed and ready to hand, so you don't spend a bunch of time installing (and sorting out conflicts for) a bunch of libraries and the start of each thing you do. That's for Python, I don't know if there's an equivilant for Ruby.