[LRUG] Your Code is My Hell

[Glenn Gillen]

On 26 Aug 2011, at 02:44, Daniel Barlow wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Anthony Green <anthony.green at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> A couple of years ago I postulated that Ruby's biggest challenge was going
>> to be growing the community whilst retaining it's culture.
>> 
>> I don't think we're doing a very good job of it.
> 
> If I might be permitted to snark for a minute ...  I started doing
> Ruby properly about 18 months ago but my observation from that time is
> that one would be mistaken either to consider the Ruby culture as
> homogenous, or to conflate it with "test first" culture, and the

You would be right.

> (This email is intended as a cultural observation and does not express
> or imply a position on the merits of testing nor on the quality of
> Ruby's code or its developers.  I'm very happy working in Ruby, I
> think that on the whole it's at least as well designed as any other
> competing platform, and I don't want anyone to assume that my moment's
> snarkiness was an indicator of general dissatisfaction, because it's
> not)

How could we make it better? I have a feeling that python does better but I've no real experience to support it. I wonder if the the "Readme Driven Development" approach would be better, especially for gems. All of my thoughts are pretty fluffy though and could really use critical appraisal of someone outside both the ruby and x community.