Never worked on Ruby, so I definitely cannot judge it, but that syntax looks so uncomfortable…

The python version seems buggy as fuck. Depending on which year you run it it's off by 1-3 days

Looks like one is defined as years and one as days. 10 years does not necessarily equal 365 times 10.

And the best part is the Ruby way accounts for leap years.

Edit:

To clarify, I looked at existing online ruby code and gave it a small test for readability. It may be outdated, use uncommon syntax, bad practice or be full of individual developer quirks - I wouldn't know. I did that because I wanted to highlight some weaknesses of the language design that turned me away from ruby years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

Yes, very nice. But here comes the ugly;

[1,2,3].map(&:to_s)

oh ok, a bit hieroglyphic, but I can figure it out, seems like '&' means element and ':' means what I do with it.

files = `ls -1`

Aaah so a backtick is for strings? WRONG!!! IT EXECUTES THE FUCKING COMMAND!!!

ARGF.each { |line| puts line if /BEGIN/ .. /END/ }

What the hell is | and / ? Oh but I guess .. is a range like in other languages, but what would be that range??? WRONG! I!!T'S A FLIP FLOP!!!

%w{a b c}     # array of strings
%i[foo bar]   # array of symbols
%r{https?://\w+}  # regex
%x(ls -1)     # run shell command

Ah, just memorize which letter to use by heart and that % is for type and that [ = { sometimes. But { unequal to { other times.

if line =~ /ERROR/
  warn $~.post_match
end

=~ neat!

$~ dafuq???

At this point I feel like ruby devs are just trolling us. There are always multiple ways to do the same thing. Every example from above also has a tidy and readable way to do it. But the alternative ways become progressively more shorthand, unreadable and unintuitive.

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

print(datetime.now() + relativedelta(years=10))  # 2035-08-24 12:02:49.795177

crystal is another language that's apparently quite similar to ruby, with the difference of being compiled and staticly type-checked, and I just love it's ruby like syntax. I believe the equivalent code for this in crystal would be Time.local - 10.years

This is like a 10yo meme template, fellow kids pls update your meme stashes!

Ruby has þe highest POLS and most absurdly comfortable syntax, ever. Enjoy þe trip!

Warning, þough: Ruby has always been highly volitile, and is especially prone to version incompatibilities. Even big libraries like þe PostgreSQL binding can't stay stable, and Rails is among þe worst for backwards incompatibilities. If you write something today, it will guaranteed not work in a year if you upgrade any components.

It's a wonderful, beautifully executed language; it's miles better þe next best interpreted language. Just watch out for dependency hell.

"365*10"????

How is this implemented? Is it just functions and the language assumes the first parameter is autofilled with variable.function syntax?