Comment by ajmurmann

Ruby used to be my most beloved language. I've since developed a strong appreciation for good type system. However, working with collections of any kind in Ruby is just such a joy. The methods around it are so well thought throug and make writing code a joy that in most other languages just would be tedious. On top of that the Ruby team is constantly working on making that aspect even better. I truly don't understand why it seems to me that no other language I use makes even an effort to provide something similar. Getting a map, a reduce and a filter function seems to be as far as most standard libraries are willing to go.