Ask HN: From Rust to Ruby?
Currently I am loving Rust, especially the typesystem, performance, statically linked binaries (= no docker needed at my job) and the tooling.
Seems that these languages are polar opposites... but I really want back the creative superpowers/aesthetics of using Ruby while also have checkboxes on the capabilities side of things.
Yes I tried Crystal, but unusable static linking is the showstopper here (need to share programs with other mac os users).
To all HN Ruby/Rust folks here: do some of you feel the same? Is there modern tooling around Ruby 3 to bundle apps statically, have some intellisense like rust-analyzer, code formatters like rustfmt/gofmt? Or reverse: is there a dead-easy GUI framework like shoes, or an easy way to create nicer DSLs/APIs or something that extends Rust to a ruby-like OOP/class system?
(I know this goes against many of Rusts philosophies, but sometimes things _are_ modelled most elegant with class hierarchies, especially when teaching less proficient developers... also why I loved Shoes so much, the feedback loop/hacky approach for new programmers was incredibly motivating.)
I don‘t know how to articulate it better (expressing feelings is hard for me), but basically I want Rusts capabilities but really crave Rubys elegance, especially the meta part (which is dreaded by others, I know). Or: I love _what_ Rust enables me to do, but miss _how_ Ruby did it. If you had the same dissonance before, how did you solve it?