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Glad to see Ruby still going strong it will forever be the 1st programming language I actually loved working with, and the combination of it with Rails was amazing. Had to move to the other side (Typescript, Django) but I think unless ChatGPT will write all the code 10 years from now - Rails and Ruby will still be there, providing teams with a lot of power and a lot of fun.

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Funny that you say that. If AI writes code, it should be Ruby, because it's shorter and easier to read. I'm making a site and love ChatGPTs Ruby code.

PS: Any Microsoft people here? Ruby could be 10x faster on Windows, if we figure out how to load files faster! https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19325#note-11

Ah I meant if the AI is so capable in writing code there won't be any need for a human to read the code anymore. The "code" will be a bunch of english requirements, like an essay describing the program. Its unclear what language ChatGPT would use in that case (and who cares if the human is no longer important?).

If an AI were meant to write code it would be Python. That is english with very few syntactic sugar mainly parens and colons.

Unless the result wouldn't be meant to be read nor understood by anyone.

IMHO Python is the closest to pseudo-code specifications.

Rails is like that first college girl/boy friend one had. Long gone, due to practical considerations, but that their fragrance, memories and love you felt for them then, is still buried somewhere deep in your heart.

Rather troubling experience are those bad days with your current real one, and you suddenly remember those sun kissed, beautiful days with your dearest ruby :D

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