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Discussion on: What’s your opinion on the Ruby programming language?

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Wilson Tovar

I like ruby because it is very easy to read but in terms of speed it leaves a lot to be desired compared to other technologies I use :(.

That's why I currently use Crystal (which is like a "Ruby", but compiled).

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Omri Gabay

I agree that Crystal is exciting, but dude. Ruby has come out faster than Python and sometimes Node in a few benchmarks...

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Wilson Tovar

Yep. I don't like Python hahaha

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HS

Can you share link to those benchmarks? 2 main reasons for not using Ruby now for me are not so type safe (at least in 2016 when I tried it, it appeared not to be) and way slower in my cases than JVM languages. Keep in mind I stated my cases; where I need type safety for my own protection and I do not need simple calls to underlying libraries written in C or whatever, these are libraries I needed for domain specific work.

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Omri Gabay

benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.n...

Granted, they're using the JIT which is still relatively experimental in Ruby but... yeah.

benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.n...

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HS

Thx

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HS

First time I hear about Crystal but looks nice. Thanks