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Ruby is about to get red hot. Again

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>Widely regarded as the language of the web...

I know this is deliberate bit of hucksterism, but come on, not very many people at all consider Ruby "the language of the web". For better or worse that would be JavaScript.

Even if you were just looking at the back end PHP has a bigger presence than Ruby.

we know

http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

I don't know about "compiling" ruby in javascript.

At the end of the day, you are debugging javascript. From my experience, debugging is not 80% of the programmer job but more like 99%. And I feel adding a lawyer of abstraction is just making the job harder. Even if you find a good plugin to match JS to the actual Ruby source, it still feels very gimmicky.

BTW, I love Ruby and I want this to happen but it's not going to be. :{

I'm surprised to see no mention of Ruby on Truffle/Graal, which has the potential to give much higher performance than the standard Ruby interpreter. https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle

I love Ruby/Rails, but if it were indeed "the language of the web" we wouldn't need to compile anything to Javascript.

Ruby/Rails needs a real answer to real-time front-end javascript frameworks. Grandiloquence does not inspire confidence on any project.

I like Ruby, but "widely regarded as the language of the web"?

Lmao.

Edit: To elaborate, there are so many statements of "X is hawwwtt" or "Y is so hot", I cannot help but wonder if this post is satire.

This is an interesting enough concept, but the piles of buzzy, sassy verbiage turned me off, speaking as a longtime (and current) Rubyist.

Yeah, and all those things exist for Python, yet you don't see people using Pyjamas everywhere instead of javascript... people are not going to switch to ruby to do front end work that will work fine in javascript, especially when you have all these plugins in javascript that are great.

Now that's saying something.

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