Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)
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HN comment orderI switched from Ruby (after ~8 years) to JavaScript at the beginning of this year, and Ruby is a dream in comparison: - Thanks to the proliferation of Rails and similar frameworks, most Ruby apps at least have something that resembles an MVC structure. With JavaScript, once you move past the basic TodoMVC examples you are pretty much on your own. It gives you enough rope to hang yourself, all you colleagues, and everyone in the building next door. -…
Programming is hard. A few years back, in the 90's when most of the code in my field was still mostly structured, and bad at that, a lot of people were saying that OOP would sort it out. I was skeptical, not because I'm resistant to change, but because it was obvious to me that doing OOP right was (and is) very hard. Not that structured programming was easy. Fast forward to today: programming is still hard, and actually it…
Originally posted 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975436
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 413
- Total comments
- 473
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-02 | Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-oriented programmingFirst breakout | blakehaswell | 110 | 94 |
| 2014-08-30 | Sick of Ruby | scapbi | 6 | 1 |
| 2017-11-07 | Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | setra | 295 | 378 |
| 2019-10-18 | Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and basically OOP (2014) | amedvednikov | 2 | 0 |