I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.
Compiler errors help the chatbot find and fix problems. The equivalent in Ruby, RBS, isn't as widely adopted. Type annotations being in separate files is also inconvenient.
That seems like it would depend quite a bit on the project? I would think many nonprofits would want a webapp of some flavor, and Ruby (or Python) are still not bad choices there - my experience with Claude is that it handles Ruby well.
The actual Ruby for Good website has more information: https://rubyforgood.org/
I love Ruby and have built my career on it, but is it the right language to be starting new projects with given agentic coding? My take is "no." Rust or TS are probably better choices right now.
Why go halfway with Rust when you could just pick Ada SPARK? Seems like an arbitrary choice based off of rationalizing a trend.
Because you pick Ada Spark if are in a certification heavy environment like Aerospace.
I understand why rust, but why TS? just for a front end?
Compiler errors help the chatbot find and fix problems. The equivalent in Ruby, RBS, isn't as widely adopted. Type annotations being in separate files is also inconvenient.
https://github.com/ruby/rbs
That seems like it would depend quite a bit on the project? I would think many nonprofits would want a webapp of some flavor, and Ruby (or Python) are still not bad choices there - my experience with Claude is that it handles Ruby well.
The typescript team themselves rewrote the compiler in Go to get better use of coding agents.
They started that migration years ago. I don't remember them citing agentic coding as a reason. Do you have a source?
I feel for a smallish project I'd rather prefer to have more readable, dense code like Ruby's over the ceremony of static types.