Why do people like coding in a system where you can cmd-click on almost nothing to get to any useful information about what the code does ...?
Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...
Not in Rails. Too much metaprogramming-generated never-defined stuff going on. Often makes diving into inherited Rails codebases pretty unpleasant. Especially if they don't have a solid test suite, which IME most in the wild do not (not Rails' fault, that's true of most code ecosystems).
Maybe you can get away with a module system that works that way in something like ocaml where it’s always possible to tell what is being referred to statically — but in a dynamic language - the level of obfuscation this induces is absolutely nuts
Some people swear by it. For just that reason.
I have never used it. I am willing to consider that maybe if I did, I'd come to like it so much I'd never want to do without it. (There was a point I didn't think I needed syntax highlighting, now I know I read/understand code so much quicker with it, at least in ruby).
Does VB Studio maybe give you it for free too? Not sure. Not sure how good these features are. Can't say why I and I think the majority of ruby devs don't try em.