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Every language has its niche (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's the part of ruby that replaced perl. For whatever eldritch horror perl was it was very, very good at doing text manipulation, and IME the only language to really match that experience was ruby.

[โ€“] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I have never been a fan of Perl, it seems like a patchwork of different styles, and the same with Ruby.

I have gotten the sales pitch for ruby and RoR so I know it has some strengths especially in web development.