Comment by mkl95
8 hours ago
Ruby is an insular language by design. It's intended to be easy to use and "make programmers happy". Whereas popular languages are usually adopted for falsifiable reasons such as performance, type safety, memory safety, etc.
When it comes to languages that don't take themselves that seriously, the tragedy of Ruby is that Python is easier to get into with its much bigger community and ecosystem. Python is more likely to make the average programmer happy.
>>Python is more likely to make the average programmer happy.
Its a weird place to be. I was making ChatGPT write lots of Python code to do some analysis on the Stock market, and it was crazy how much code I was able to write in a day. I'm talking like a million+ lines of code. In a day.
To that end, it also means the cost of Python code today is $0 given how much can be generated so quickly.
Its a useful language, but pretty much anything you do with it today doesn't have as much value.
Interesting. Have you also asked ChatGPT to write Ruby code? How much of quality Ruby code can it write in the same time?
ChatGPT was writing 11+ lines of usable Python every second for 24 hours? I highly doubt that. Also your reasoning about value is confusing.