On Ruby

Thanks! The effort you put in highlighting and describing all these coding pattern problems and/or language design issues is really strong and this is interesting, given you also stated how much you are loosing interest for this ecosystem and trying to sail away for new ones. Honestly, what I see when I read these kind of articles is more of a cry of sadness for having to leave something which we would never want to leave, than a joy hymn to a better, newly discovered replacement path.

I wish, and I am sure you wished too, that the Ruby community could address all these issue in a reasonable time in order to not leave.. or at least not completely. But no matter how much strong this feeling is, it simply happens at some point that enough is enough, and you get sick of having to go through something in a way which even though it's great at the start it becomes more complicated than what it should actually be.

In my opinion though it's not a fault in Ruby, but it's simply all about Ruby's age and what we do expect from it. If its metaprogramming qualities and syntax and great object model were able to trigger the creation of something like Rails 10 years ago and not now for example, then it had to come with both pros and cons, to which you can always subtract 10 years of messy PHP and add up the inspiring of those whole new languages and frameworks you are considering to switch to NOW.

Honestly I am happy Ruby/Rails happened in time to be synergistic with my developer life, and I too fight with frustrations the Ruby ecosystem gives, but I can't feel like accusing it because it was like a very experimental thing, a prototype, that had great power but that nobody really consistently and concretely (big $) helped developing fully. Nonetheless it can already - only by standing on its feet - empower your start up at a fraction of the complexity (=cost) of other solutions. And, yes, its design will synthesize your ideas beautifully, which helps think faster.

Actually I think it's this exact struggle that keeps still alive and going the Ruby community. It's like as if we found the holy grail in a remote deep cavern, and were totally wicked by it, but then we discovered that we could only use it in that cavern. And even more frustratingly so, for some reasons this cavern was so far never dug up open by some multi-billionaire ruby miner.. hell it's so absurd that one can easily get hypnotized down there, staring at the beauty of the Ruby, while telling themselves that someone with bigger excavators shall notice it soon too.