Why Ruby?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/10/10 5:26 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> http://vimeo.com/17420638
>
> A very interesting talk.
>
> I used to like D. To write code in a high level while at the same
> time being very close to the machine, with class invariants, unit
> tests and many other features seemed very appealing. But I always
> felt there was something wrong.
>
> About a year ago I met Ruby. Now I find languages like Java, C#,
> Python and D kind of ugly and uncomfortable. Why? Exactly because of
> what it is said in that video.
>
> This is not to start a flame war or trolling, it's just to show you
> why I changed my mind so much about D, and why I think (IMHO) you
> should care about naming conventions (like bearophile says), more
> powerful unittests (and not having unittests integrated into the
> language but rather being able to build your own test frameworks
> with ease) and stop caring about being C-syntax friendly. The world
> doesn't need that many semicolons and parenthesis. :-)

BTW I first got to the talk from the reddit discussion here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ej2be/dhhs_rubyconf_keynote_on_why_he_loves_ruby_turns/


Andrei