diff --git a/content/elsewhere/why-i-still-like-ruby-and-a-few-things-i-dont-like/index.md b/content/elsewhere/why-i-still-like-ruby-and-a-few-things-i-dont-like/index.md index f749e20..8fc4568 100644 --- a/content/elsewhere/why-i-still-like-ruby-and-a-few-things-i-dont-like/index.md +++ b/content/elsewhere/why-i-still-like-ruby-and-a-few-things-i-dont-like/index.md @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ draft: false canonical_url: https://www.viget.com/articles/why-i-still-like-ruby-and-a-few-things-i-dont-like/ featured: true references: +- title: "The History of Ruby — SitePoint" + url: https://www.sitepoint.com/history-ruby/ + date: 2023-11-16T14:54:03Z + file: www-sitepoint-com-6vwmef.txt - title: "When Should You NOT Use Rails?" url: https://codefol.io/posts/when-should-you-not-use-rails/ date: 2023-11-04T17:36:55Z diff --git a/static/archive/www-sitepoint-com-6vwmef.txt b/static/archive/www-sitepoint-com-6vwmef.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4796c25 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/www-sitepoint-com-6vwmef.txt @@ -0,0 +1,381 @@ + [tr?id=721455246308784&ev=PageView&noscript=1] #[1]SitePoint + + IFRAME: [2]https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-KL8PMMW + + 🤯 Save 33% 700+ courses, assessments, and books + [3]Browse Titles + (BUTTON) + + (BUTTON) + * ____________________ + * [4]Blog + * + + [5]Free Tech Books → + + [6]AI → + + [7]JavaScript + + [8]Computing + + [9]Design & UX + + [10]HTML & CSS + + [11]Entrepreneur + + [12]Web + + [13]PHP + + [14]WordPress + + [15]Mobile + + [16]Programming + + [17]Python → + * [18]Forum + * [19]Library + * [20]Login + * [21]Join Premium + + [22]Join Premium + + ____________________ + + (BUTTON) + (BUTTON) + * [23]Free Tech Books + * [24]AI + * [25]JavaScript + * [26]Computing + * [27]Design & UX + * [28]HTML & CSS + * [29]Entrepreneur + * [30]Web + * [31]PHP + * [32]WordPress + * [33]Mobile + * [34]Programming + * [35]Python + + (BUTTON) + (BUTTON) + + [36]Ruby + +The History of Ruby + + [37][1433174717Profile-2015-May-96x96.jpg] + + + [38]Jesse Herrick + + July 26, 2014 + Share (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) + + rubygrows + + The Ruby language is 21 years old. Its strong community and adoption by + the open source community has kept this language steady and improving. + Ruby has changed drastically over the years. It has grown from a young + child to the strong adult that it is today. But it didn’t get that way + overnight. Let’s take a look at the life of the Ruby programming + language. + + Note: This article is packed with metaphors (language to human), so be + prepared. + +Birth (1993) + + Ruby was born in 1993, conceieved in a discussion between Yukihiro + Matsumoto (“Matz”) and a colleague. They were discussing the + possibility of an object-oriented scripting-language. Matz stated in + [39]ruby-talk:00382 that he knew Perl, but did not like it very much; + that it had the smell of a “toy” language. He also discussed that he + knew Python, but didn’t like it because it wasn’t a true + object-oriented programming language. + + Matz wanted a language perfect for his needs: + * Syntactically Simple + * Truly Object-Oriented + * Having Iterators and Closures + * Exception Handling + * Garbage Collection + * Portable + + Having looked around and not found a language suited for him, Yukihiro + Matsumoto decided to create his own. After spending several months + writing an interpreter, Matz finally published the first public version + of Ruby (0.95) to various Japanese domestic newsgroups in December, + 1995. You can still download the infant version of Ruby [40]here at + your own risk. + +Toddler Years + + Ruby became a toddler (n.: a young child who is just beginning to walk) + when Ruby 1.0 was released in December, 1996. Ruby 1.1 shortly followed + in August of 1997, and the first stable version of Ruby (1.2) was + released in December of 1998. + + At this point in time, Ruby was localized to Japan only, but it would + soon spread to other parts of the world… + +Primary School Years + + In 1998, Matz created a simple English homepage for Ruby. However, Ruby + was still very localized to Japan. In trying to further this expansion, + the first English language Ruby mailing list, [41]Ruby-Talk, was + created. Ruby was beginning to spread beyond Japan. + + Ruby-Talk is still very active today, and you can subscribe to it + [42]here. + + In October of 1999, Yukihiro Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka wrote the + first book on the Ruby programming language: The Object-oriented + Scripting Language Ruby. Ruby was beginning to get very popular in + Japan, and spreading rapidly to English-speaking countries. + + In 2001, the first English book on Ruby, Programming Ruby (“The + Pickaxe”), was published in 2001. With this new information on Ruby, + many more people were able to learn the language. + + Ruby 1.8 was released in 2003. This release made large amounts of + changes to the agile 10-year-old language. Including: + * Duck Typing (looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a + duck: it’s a duck) + * Fully Qualified Names (Foo::Bar) + * Native YAML Support + * WEBrick + * StringIO + * open-uri + * PP (Pretty Printer for Hash#inspect) + * ruby -run (UNIX commands for all! ruby -run -e mkdir foo) + * And many other minor features + + In 2004, RubyGems was released to the public. Good things started + happening next… + +The Rebellious Teenager + + In 2005, Ruby use took off. The reason: Ruby on Rails. This new + framework changed the history of rapid web development. Ruby had been + used in the past to write CGI scripts, but Ruby on Rails took this a + step further. Rails has a Model-View-Controller structure that focuses + on “convention over configuration”, which is great for developing web + applications. + + People loved it. So much so that, the Ruby community was almost taken + over by the Rails framework. Ruby in turn became very popular. + + In March of 2007, Ruby 1.8.6 was released, with 1.8.7 following in May + of 2008. At this point, Ruby was at its peak. Mac OS X even began + shipping with it in 2007. At this point, Ruby was 15 years old. + + Ruby 1.9 (development version) was released in December, 2007, then + stabilized 4 years later (2011) as Ruby 1.9.3. Ruby 1.9.3 was the + production version of 1.9.2. These versions brought new changes to the + language, such as: + * Significant speed improvements + * New methods + * New hash syntax ({ foo: 'bar' }) + * RubyGems included + * New Socket API (IPv6 support) + * Several random number generators + * Regular Expression improvements + * File loading performance improvements + * Test::Unit Improvements + * New encoding support + * More string formatting tweaks + * And so much more + + Ruby was making the transition from a rebellious teenager to a strong + adult as it turned 18 with Ruby 1.9.3. + +Strong Adult + + Ruby 2.0.0 was released in February 2013 and brought many stabilizing + changes to the language. Among them are: + * More speed improvements + * Refinements (safe monkey patching) + * Keyword arguments + * UTF-8 by default + * New regular expressions engine + * Optimized garbage collection + * The addition of built-in syntax documentation (ri ruby:syntax) + + Unlike 1.9.x, which broke numerous gems with its changes, 2.0.0 was + almost completely backwards compatible with 1.9.3. In addition, Heroku, + one of the leading Ruby/Rails hosts upgraded to 2.0.0 quickly, causing + earlier than usual adoption by new and existing projects. The Ruby + language was (and is) in its golden age. + + Ruby 2.1.0 was released on Christmas day of 2013. It brought several + minor changes to the language. But the biggest news of 2.1.0 was + [43]semantic versioning, a way to properly version a project without + breaking dependencies by accident. + + Ruby 2.1.1 was released on Ruby’s 21st birthday (February 24, 2014). + Ruby is now legally allowed to drink in the US (not that we’d want it + to). This version was mainly speed improvements and bugfixes. Shortly + after 2.1.1, Ruby 2.1.2 was released in May of 2014. 2.1.2 consists of + more bugfixes and is the current stable version of Ruby. + +The Future + + Ruby is a great language. Matz wanted a programming language that + suited his needs, so he built one. This is an inspiring story of + software development: if you can’t find something that you like, + program it yourself. From 0.95 to 2.1.2, Ruby has struck the awe of + those who wished to program the way they wanted, not the way the + machine wanted. + + We can’t know the future of the Ruby language, but we can predict it + based on the past. I believe that the Ruby language, and its fantastic + community will continue furthering the language above and beyond what + others think is possible, and projects built using it will do the same. + +Share This Article + + (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) (BUTTON) + + + [44]Jesse Herrick + + [45]Jesse Herrick + + Jesse Herrick is an avid Ruby developer who specializes in web + development. He is a back-end developer at [46]Littlelines and loves + programming. 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