Ruby was one of many languages to spike in popularity due to being a novel way to approach programming, and everyone I know has moved on from it. But I find it very valuable for one-off scripts that are too complex to write in Bash. I actually used Ruby to compile my app's documentation from sources into a JSON file, and it was easy to update the Ruby code every time I added more features or needed to change how the documentation was generated. It let me write it in a mostly functional way without being too confusing, and it was already installed on my system. But for web apps, no way am I choosing Ruby. I've moved on to Node.js from Ruby years ago, and haven't looked back. Modern JavaScript is much more "clean" than Ruby to me.
I'd second that statement. I'm writing both, and modern JS is much better than what it was before but nowhere close to dev productivity compared to Ruby.
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Ruby was one of many languages to spike in popularity due to being a novel way to approach programming, and everyone I know has moved on from it. But I find it very valuable for one-off scripts that are too complex to write in Bash. I actually used Ruby to compile my app's documentation from sources into a JSON file, and it was easy to update the Ruby code every time I added more features or needed to change how the documentation was generated. It let me write it in a mostly functional way without being too confusing, and it was already installed on my system. But for web apps, no way am I choosing Ruby. I've moved on to Node.js from Ruby years ago, and haven't looked back. Modern JavaScript is much more "clean" than Ruby to me.
Modern JavaScript is much more "clean" than Ruby to me. Can you gimme some example. I found the exactly oposite :))
I'd second that statement. I'm writing both, and modern JS is much better than what it was before but nowhere close to dev productivity compared to Ruby.