Ruby Is Still a Diamond

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    I still love writing Ruby. I suspect I probably always will, in fact, and I use it as my system scripting language over Python and the like. It has always made sense to me and I enjoy it being a part of my day-job too.

    If I need to write something, like a small tool, or an API, or a Prometheus exporter (https://github.com/robotmay/prometheus-aanet-exporter/blob/m...), I write it in Ruby. The Prometheus exporter is a good example actually: nobody else seems to write them in Ruby, but I found it easier to make one from scratch than to figure out the pretty obtuse and non-standardised examples written in Go by everybody else. Obviously this won't be true for everyone else, we all have our own favourite languages, but for me it's very rare that I find something that can't be written effectively in Ruby, so I'm happy to keep writing code that way.

    There's always a lot of arguments about Ruby/Rails performance, but it's actually not too tricky to make it run fast enough for most tasks. It is fairly easy to shoot yourself in the foot I guess, compared to other languages which are natively fast, but there's a downside to all languages.

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