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Every language has its niche (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] somas@kbin.social 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

@nifty I have nothing against Ruby and think it’s a nice flexible language. At the peak of RoR though, all the asshats were all over Ruby.

My problem with Ruby wasn’t even RoR, it was with the way the asshats valued ~~creativity~~ “cleverness” which seemed to mean writing code in the most cryptic ways possible. These folks took what should be an expressive language and wrote scripts that rivaled Perl’s worst “read once and never again” scripts.

[-] wim 15 points 9 months ago

I never did Rails but I used Ruby for many personal projects in the 2000s.

When showing stuff to my coworkers or friends, I often joked how I tried to make my code look like it was already gzipped.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This wasn't "creativity over code" so much as it was the tail end of y2k and all the greybeards were canned so none could teach the shiny whiz kid how to code like an adult.

Without the linus-like code review sessions, they never learned why and how to improve.

Now their kludge-bro mentality has raised a whole new generation.

And that's why people don't know not to flatpak or npm themselves into a solarwinds sploit.