I would expect any adroit HN reader to be comfortable in a programming language after 7 years :) What is odd is that you say "most of the syntax". Would you please elaborate (aside from what you said about function creation/passing)? I like ruby, but I'm not to the point where the syntax falls into place as easily I wish it would.
Personally I had a hard time remembering the difference between Procs, blocks, and lambdas in Ruby, though I believe this is partly due to the fact that the differences shifted in minor point releases.
- No keyword arguments
- No good syntax for creating pure functions
- Metaprogramming seems tacked on
- HERE doc manipulation is atrocious
- There is no 'fundamental unit' of a Hash
(other than a destructured key-value pair),
so mapping a function onto hash keys or values
is always a call to #reduce or a Hash[array]
- Creating a Hash with #reduce is not pretty
- Destructuring isn't so sophisticated
- Local variables become defined even if they aren't in your
current code path
- I already mentioned method passing