<story><title>Ruby Is Still a Diamond</title><url>https://medium.com/retention-science/ruby-is-still-a-diamond-b789d2661266</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FigurativeVoid</author><text>The company I work for re-implemented out entire platform with Ruby on Rails. Even though it&amp;#x27;s not super new, everyone has really fallen in love with ruby. The gem ecosystem and the community are great. Ruby is an absolute joy to program in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zionic</author><text>&amp;gt; Ruby is an absolute joy to program in.&lt;p&gt;Really? At my company it seems like 90% of the tests are catching things that would be caught automatically if we had used a proper language with strong types&amp;#x2F;compiler.&lt;p&gt;IMO Ruby is slow, not particularly beautiful (yes, this is subjective), and seems optimized for shoving crappy REST endpoints out the door as quickly as possible.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ruby Is Still a Diamond</title><url>https://medium.com/retention-science/ruby-is-still-a-diamond-b789d2661266</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FigurativeVoid</author><text>The company I work for re-implemented out entire platform with Ruby on Rails. Even though it&amp;#x27;s not super new, everyone has really fallen in love with ruby. The gem ecosystem and the community are great. Ruby is an absolute joy to program in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeduck</author><text>Rubygems is one of the best packaging systems I&amp;#x27;ve used.</text></comment>