• bruhduh@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Those hentai games and visual novel games still keeping ruby lang relevant tho, rpgmaker game engine is one of examples

    • Fellstone@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I think the two newest, MV and MZ, have switched to Javascript. Also, Ren’py is the only visual novel engine I can think of, which is based on Python.

    • geogle@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Physics changes with retirements. FORTRAN should received it’s gold watch and shown the door about 20 years ago now.

    • pbbananaman@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      How long ago? ROOT (and other frameworks like GEANT) using C++ has been the standard for over 15 years, but probably longer. I think my advisor was of the last generation that had to write in Fortran.

      • Codex@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        the last generation to write FORTRAN

        runs to look out window

        My God is the sun turning into a red giant?!

        Oh no, whew, that’s a relief! Guess the FORTRAN programmers will be relevant for a little longer too then.

        (As a .NET dev, I wish some languages (or versions of languages) would die but i really think once code has been written it never goes away!)

      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Currently lmao. I’m using those tools as well but some specific event generators I’m using are in Fortran still

  • cheet@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    Metasploit and Gitlab are both my main uses of ruby, hasn’t made me think any better of it tho.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      7 months ago

      Yeah…

      Facebook hasn’t used PHP for a long time. They use Hack which started as a language simular to PHP, but it’s very different now - it’s strongly-typed and has a bunch of advanced features, like the ability to annotate functions as pure (no side effects), which gets enforced by the type checker.

  • caleb@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    As a Rails engineer with 14 years experience, I can say the place that should be in the 3rd panel is Shopify. They employ so many ruby and rails core committers and directly fund a good many rails gems, and ruby community infrastructure it’s insane. They’re also directly funding the development of things like the YJIT and speed enhancements to MRI itself.

    Then there’s all the other places I know or worked at built on Ruby where my other long tenured ruby friends work.

    • Gusto
    • Airbnb
    • Clearbit
    • Stripe
    • Github
    • Gitlab
    • Bold Penguin
    • rambaroo@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Aha asks for Ruby on rails experience in their job listings, so they must be using it as well

    • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub
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      7 months ago

      Ruby was recommended to me by my comparative programming languages professor. I haven’t picked it up, but there were memes that this professor was so good at programming he was secretly built by the university in C++ to teach students how to write better code.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        It’s worth learning Ruby to understand some of the tricks you can do in programming languages.

        Did your prof also recommend others like Lisp?

    • not_again@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Medicine too.

      An instrument in my lab is running jdk 1_8_131…and this is a recent/newish piece of equipment.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      And it’s a pile of shit.

      git is great. GitHub blows chunks. The only reason it’s still big is that it sucks less than any other single platform.

        • TechNom (nobody)@programming.devEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Git owes a lot of its popularity to github. Without it, there’s a good chance that mercurial would have taken over. In addition, the centralized workflow was what made both git and github popular. It simplified git usage enough to let a lot of novices get started.

          I’m in no way a fan of centralization that github represents. But I think a decentralized workflow using git was a lost opportunity. People complain a lot about the git-email workflow. But I see no reason why it couldn’t have become as easy as using github if the effort spent on github was spent on git-email tools and user experience.