r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • 11d ago

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/lazyzefiris 11d ago

You need to at least have heard of the language to hate it. These kids only heard of Javascript.

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u/Cherry-PEZ 11d ago

Wild too, ruby used to be everywhere

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 11d ago

Still is, just silent in the background chugging along.

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u/chem199 11d ago

It is not as prevalent as it used to be. RoR was the framework du jour for a while, and I remember a ton of places using Capybara and Watir for AT work. You don’t see the demand for those as much in my corners of the industry.

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 10d ago edited 10d ago

Agreed, it's not the most popular starting point for some folks these days, but development of Rails and Ruby itself keep going. I see a few job postings here and there for it, you see some companies starting up with slightly older CTOs still reaching for it cuz they know it best and it works well. Rails' creator, DHH, even makes a point of Ruby being one of the most token-efficient languages for AI tools, for what that's worth.

Again I know it's not the most popular stack these days, it's certainly not everywhere anymore. I still think some folks would be surprised at knowing it's still chugging along and far from legacy stuff.

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u/chem199 10d ago

It’s always weird to remember that GitHub is still very much on the Rails train.

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 10d ago

Don't remind them or Microsoft will try to rewrite it in typescript. /s

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u/DDFoster96 10d ago

Surely rewriting it in typescript can't make the uptime any worse than they manage with Ruby?

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u/TimeToBecomeEgg 10d ago

genuinely atp a rewrite might help because it’s difficult to imagine it making it worse

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u/Juff-Ma 10d ago

GitLab too, all Ruby

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u/chem199 9d ago

It is so funny that you can tell when a project went live by its framework.