Andrew,
My short list would be
- Many things seem to be easily done with much less effort
- No compilation waits
- GEMS and community that support it
- duck typing
- meta programming
Cheers,
Jason
On 24/04/2010, at 1:35 PM, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ryan Bigg asked on twitter what people liked about ruby. My thoughts
couldn't be crammed into 140 characters.
Blocks are something special. One minute you're using a less verbose
`for` loop, the next you're on your way to thinking about functional
programming, and how to hide information and implementation that isn't
relevant right now.
Apart from that, a lot of what I like are in terms of "It avoids the
pitfall X of language Y".
* It doesn't require you to declare variable types
* (For Rails, not ruby as such) Getting information about
database-based objects is done for you, you don't necessarily have to
write your own SQL query, like framework-less PHP
* Code is somewhat more readable than Perl, and you don't have to
worry about whitespace (Python)
I also like the ruby community, and its libraries.
I must be missing something though. Any thoughts?
Andrew
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