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Discussion on: Why do you love Ruby, actually? An ode.

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Alex Lion

I discovered Ruby along with Rails a year ago, this has literally rekindled the flame of passion for development.

I come from the JS and Java world, JS ecosystem is too messy and changing caused me the famous "JS fatigue". Java is too boilerplate.

It has been a challenge to change my way of thinking and in the end be much easier to understand and make me happier.

I've a lot to discover yet.

For PHP, Laravel is inspired by Rails but the language is too "arrowed" and not very pleasant compared to Ruby language. However Laravel has a lot of satellite projects like Nova, Forge, Vapor, Telescop which Rails is missing.

Ruby forever <3

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Sylwia Vargas

I totally know what you mean about rekindling passion for development.

Whenever I get back to Ruby after working on a JS or React project, I always feel like some weight has been lifted off my chest.

I think I always worried of being a “declared Rubyist” because there’s just so much 10xEngineer attitude on tech twitter that bashes Ruby and Rails. But in all honesty I love React because of the features it shares with Ruby (straightforward syntax, inclusive community) so yes, Ruby is my love language 🥰