Is Ruby Still a ‘Serious’ Programming Language?
Wired published an article by California-based writer/programmer Sheon Han arguing that Ruby “is not a serious programming language.”
Han believes that the world of programming has “moved on”, and “everything Ruby does, another language now does better, leaving it without a distinct niche.
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Stack Overflow Co-Founder to DHH: You Should be Afraid of Me
Jeff Atwood (co-founder of Stack Overflow & Discourse), appears to make a public threat against Omarchy & Ruby on Rails founder, DHH. ⌘ Read more
New mango variety to hit shelves after years of development
The Ruby Gold mango has been produced in commercial quantities for the first time and sellers say they are sure it will be a winner with consumers. ⌘ Read more
DHH Talks to Lunduke
David Heinemeier Hansson (aka “DHH”, the creator of Ruby on Rails & Omarchy Linux), talks with Lunduke about Linux “selling out”, what a “distro” is, & the attacks from activists within Open Source. ⌘ Read more
Tag proposal: conflicts
Given that we’ve recently been flooded with posts about conflicts in relation to Ruby Central, DHH, Omarchy, Rust in Linux, and now Freedesktop, can we have a tag for this kind of thing? I accept that it’s important and on topic but I’d like to be able to take a break. ⌘ Read more
Technology for Humans: Conversation with Ruby Central’s executive director, Shan Cureton
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Leftist Activists Demand Removal of Ruby on Rails Founder, DHH
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** Make awk rawk **
A friend online recently replied to something I wrote about awk by saying:
[…] it’s a danged shame [awk] didn’t continue to evolve the way Ruby, Python, PHP have evolved over the decades.
I had exactly this thought while working on my slightly unhinged“lets see if I can implement a basic scheme using awk by writing an assembler and VM in awk,” skwak. Which eventually lead me to start noodling on how to layer in some modern niceties into awk, without breaking awk’s portability.
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Xfce does one thing very right: It stores its settings in plain-text XML files. This allows me to easily read, track, and maybe even distribute these settings to other machines.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I spent so much time in the past figuring out if something is a dict or a list in YAML, for example.
What are the types in this example?
items:
- part_no: A4786
descrip: Water Bucket (Filled)
price: 1.47
quantity: 4
- part_no: E1628
descrip: High Heeled "Ruby" Slippers
size: 8
price: 133.7
quantity: 1
items is a dict containing … a list of two other dicts? Right?
It is quite hard for me to grasp the structure of YAML docs. 😢
The big advantage of YAML (and JSON and TOML) is that it’s much easier to write code for those formats, than it is with XML. json.loads() and you’re done.
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@kat I don’t like Golang much either, but I am not a programmer. This little site, Go by example might explain a thing or two.
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@prologic@twtxt.net interesting that ruby is so low on the list, i find it the easiest to learn! hell i struggle with python more than ruby and i’ve been told that python is like ruby but better lol. maybe it’s just my weird brain!
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i wish it was realistic for me to learn golang but every single time i try to comprehend any go code i'm like What the fuck am i looking at. why is all of this so short and condensed GIVE ME VERBOSE CODE
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de help yeah i struggle so hard with this stuff! it’s why wordier languages like ruby come easier to me
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@kat I don’t like Golang much either, but I am not a programmer. This little site, Go by example might explain a thing or two.
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One of the nicest things about Go is the language itself, comparing Go to other popular languages in terms of the complexity to learn to be proficient in:
- Go:
25keywords (Stack Overflow); CSP-style concurrency (goroutines & channels)
- Python 2:
30keywords (TutorialsPoint); GIL-bound threads & multiprocessing (Wikipedia)
- Python 3:
35keywords (Initial Commit); GIL-bound threads,asyncio& multiprocessing (Wikipedia, DEV Community)
- Java:
50keywords (Stack Overflow); threads +java.util.concurrent(Wikipedia)
- C++:
82keywords (Stack Overflow);std::thread, atomics & futures (en.cppreference.com)
- JavaScript:
38keywords (Stack Overflow); single-threaded event loop &async/await, Web Workers (Wikipedia)
- Ruby:
42keywords (Stack Overflow); GIL-bound threads (MRI), fibers & processes (Wikipedia)
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i recorded and posted another vlog yesterday :] https://memoria.sayitditto.net/view?m=UNwsVI9yp
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that’s alright haha! i don’t expect anyone to listen/watch in full or with full attention bc it’s so long lmao
the thing with PHP for me is that i… feel like it hits a kind of simplicity that i can understand? it’s so plain but can be very powerful. i quite like that. as much as i can learn something infinitely more powerful, PHP hits a comfortable thing where i can handle things like backend sqlite DBs AND how a page is rendered, without requiring a complex frontend with its own quirks (like ruby on rails, which as much as i know and love it, can be heavy).
but i totally get you! PHP security is very scary. i’m always worried that i’m messing something up. it’s why the PHP application i’m working on i have dockerized by default for a small but extra layer of protection
i’ll try to not get discouraged tysm for your advice
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev@andros@twtxt.andros.dev i know MVC but i don’t know model view view model what does this mean…. i am learning PHP (and a tiny bit of perl scripting) as a mainly ruby girl so mayhaps i am improving but my focus is SERVERS
How We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ruby on Rails & Inertia.js - Hardcover Blog
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** Rack::Static Vulnerability Exposes Ruby Servers to Data Breaches! **
Hold onto your keyboards, Ruby developers! 😱 A critical security flaw in the Rack::Static middleware has been uncovered, potentially…
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Erlang Solutions: My Journey from Ruby to Elixir: Lessons from a Developer
Why I Looked Beyond RubyFor years, Ruby was my go-to language for building everything from small prototypes to full-fledged production apps. I fell in love with its elegance and expressiveness and how Ruby on Rails could turn an idea into a working web app in record time. The community—with its focus on kindness and collaboration—only deepened my appreciation. In short, Ruby felt like home.
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there should be a yarn posting TUI. tbh
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i could build that myself but also i can’t because i don’t know code!!!!!!!!! her ass only knows ruby on rails!!!!!!!!!
Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-25291 + CVE-2025-25292) were discovered in ruby-saml up to version 1.17.0. In this blog post, we’ll shed light on how these vulnerabilities that rely on a parser differential were uncovered.
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[WTS] [$200] Monero Ruby /25 Currency TCG by Cardsmiths
Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1immtkv/
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org one time i saw that operator when working with ruby on rails and i was so confused by it that i got stuck on the same code involving it for 9 hours straight
Python is 71x Slower, Uses 75x More Energy, Than C
Rust, Go, Swift, Dart, Ruby. All slower, & use more electricity, than plain old C. ⌘ Read more
Execute commands by sending JSON? Learn how unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities work in Ruby projects
Can an attacker execute arbitrary commands on a remote server just by sending JSON? Yes, if the running code contains unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities. But how is that possible? In this blog post, we’ll describe how unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities work and how you can detect them in Ruby projects.
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