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Every language has its niche (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

The only place I've seen ruby used extensively is in environments with a lot of regular expressions and string manipulation. Still not entirely sure why I've only seen it used there. The regex tools in ruby are nice but they aren't nice enough to justify a language switch in my opinion...

[-] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

It's the part of ruby that replaced perl. For whatever eldritch horror perl was it was very, very good at doing text manipulation, and IME the only language to really match that experience was ruby.