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Ruby, the language famous for lots of difficult to understand runtime “magic”?


It's a sharp knife. You can create a messy nightmare or a clean super readable codebase, it's up to how good the author is.


So Ruby isn’t actually a good target for stochastic parrots, after all.

You’d want the opposite, a language with automatically checked constraints that is also easy to read.


I'll take ruby, give me the sharp knife, I know what I'm doing...




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