<story><title>Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006)</title><url>https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rlue</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a self-taught junior developer who started with Ruby in 2016. I&amp;#x27;ve very much enjoyed the experience so far, and am currently rather invested in Rails, though I&amp;#x27;m preparing to branch out into other areas of web development (I&amp;#x27;m looking at you, React).&lt;p&gt;This thread is really opening my eyes to the sheer vitriol that gets directed at Ruby outside of its own echo chamber.&lt;p&gt;I get that it has performance issues (to be addressed in Ruby 3) and interest in Rails is now less than half what it was at its peak.[0] Everyone has very strong opinions, and when people start soapboxing like they are in this thread, nobody learns anything.&lt;p&gt;At this point, honestly, I just think the rest of the community could use a little bit of Ruby&amp;#x27;s characteristic niceness.[1]&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=%2Fm%2F0505cl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;q=%2Fm%2F0...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MINASWAN&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MINASWAN&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006)</title><url>https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djohnston</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never learned ruby in an intentional manner, but whenever I needed to write some, I found that things just worked the way I expected it to, and the docs were always super helpful. To be fair, I haven&amp;#x27;t built anything large scale with it, but my experience with the language has been anecdotally pleasant.</text></comment>