<story><title>Your users will do what you make easy</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8208-when_making_things_easy_is_bad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortysixdegrees</author><text>I find Ruby gives me multiple patterns to solve problems in, each of which feel easy.&lt;p&gt;Even when it becomes evident doing it another way would have been better, usually it is still readable and consise, and quick to develop.&lt;p&gt;My biggest disappointment in this profession is that ruby isn&amp;#x27;t used much more outside of rails. My team use it for everything except low level driver stuff, and it feels like we have this huge unfair advantage over our competitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herbst</author><text>&amp;gt; and it feels like we have this huge unfair advantage over our competitors.&lt;p&gt;As one man company I feel you on this. May is subjective, but starting from watching people that spend literally weeks to combine some buggy wordpress plugins to build out a functionality that is essentially just CRUD to folks who build multi server, multi service apps for just a few hundred monthly users. Where we just run a few generators, add a few major gems and can start focus on the fun stuff.</text></comment>
<story><title>Your users will do what you make easy</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8208-when_making_things_easy_is_bad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortysixdegrees</author><text>I find Ruby gives me multiple patterns to solve problems in, each of which feel easy.&lt;p&gt;Even when it becomes evident doing it another way would have been better, usually it is still readable and consise, and quick to develop.&lt;p&gt;My biggest disappointment in this profession is that ruby isn&amp;#x27;t used much more outside of rails. My team use it for everything except low level driver stuff, and it feels like we have this huge unfair advantage over our competitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>Although rails alone is enough to carry ruby. I think there is likely just not enough reason to use ruby over python in most non web use cases.</text></comment>