The only place I've seen ruby used extensively is in environments with a lot of regular expressions and string manipulation. Still not entirely sure why I've only seen it used there. The regex tools in ruby are nice but they aren't nice enough to justify a language switch in my opinion...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.