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Does some of it feel kind of redundant? I suppose that people have different reasons for learning languages but as someone who knows Python, Ruby is one of the languages on my not-to-learn list since it would neither allow me to work on anything that I can't work on now or introduce some new and interesting language paradigm.

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> as someone who knows Python, Ruby is one of the languages on my not-to-learn list since it would neither allow me to work on anything that I can't work on now or introduce some new and interesting language paradigm.

Python is a pervasively procedural (to the extent that it likes hiding OO features behind procedural interfaces), statement-oriented programming language with multiple-inheritance style OOP, and a structural aversion to functional idioms.

Ruby is a pervasively OO, expression-oriented language, with single-inheritance + mixin OOP, and an affinity for functional idioms expressed through fluent OOP APIs.

Ruby is very much not redundant with Python.

Meh, as someone with quite a bit of experience with both of them they are very similar, you don't learn much from switching from one to the other, compared to switching to something like C/Haskell/Kotlin.

Learning languages which are reasonably redundant is much faster, because there's a lot less to learn - mostly syntax, and keywords.

So, yeah, although there's less gain, there's less cost, and you might come across patterns you can transfer.

Ruby just never clicked with me, and I feel like if I am going to use something other than a scripting language, like python, it should be something that has insane native performance.

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