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> You get to use Ruby, which [...] remains the most extraordinarily beautiful and luxurious language I’ve yet to encounter.

I've used Ruby sporadically as gap-fill in small projects, but I didn't feel the language has any qualities that sets it apart from others.

Perhaps I missed something, any Ruby devs care to comment?

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This article might be helpful: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/HumaneInterface.html. I use Ruby occasionally only, but agree with DHH's point. At least compared to the languages I knew before I learned Ruby, I found it to be designed to be aesthetically pleasing to humans. This might be even be the cause for the parse ambiguities.

Thanks! I agree Ruby looks to be far user-friendly in this context.

Just to add, my work revolves around the JVM ecosystem, but mostly in Scala and some Kotlin... Both already provide a nicer interface for Java :) e.g. in the context of collections both have `list.head` or `list.first` and `list.last`.

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