[ndnxhs]

And then someone else tries to read your code. One of the things I love about ruby dev is its not about providing 10000 ways to do the same thing but about making sure that given a simple problem, every developer will solve it in pretty much the same way.

[kiaulen]

What? With ruby, there are at least 4 ways to find out how big something is (.size, .length, et al). You want to loop over something? You can use python style for in loops, .each, and several other ways. Your block could be a block, or it could be a symbol with an & in front. Want a bit of code without a name? You have blocks, procs, and lambda. Want a string? You have string and symbol, and ne'er the two shall cross paths.

Ruby is specifically designed as a replacement for perl, and keeps a lot of the same warts ($igils, and globals like $?, $1, etc). While I agree it's better than perl for readability, it's not because there's only one way to do any given thing.

[collyw]

I have had to maintain absolute crap in Python and beautifully written Perl. 90% of it is down to the developer.

[horsawlarway]

Are you crazy? I explicitly dislike ruby because I feel it encourages everyone to make their own DSL like bullshit wrappers everywhere - Leading to a million and a half ways to do anything and everything.

While I don't use it often, I feel like GoLang at least vaguely tried to adopt a "single solution" approach to language design. They keep the standard library as compact as possible, and formatting is non-optional with gofmt.