I remember when this came out. I think I met Yehuda Katz briefly after that at a conference (along with Jim Weirch, RIP). Since then I've been using Ruby pretty much every day. I built some crazy weird stuff in Ruby, often using lessons learned from this post, and many more since. One of the rare memories I have of my 20's is figuring out Eigenclasses.
Now I've landed in using Elixir and I can safely say I kinda think it was all a little bit of a waste. I know why Ruby had these kinds of ideas, I remember the release of Refinements (2015 was a hell of a year) and I think it enabled a bunch of interesting software, but holy crap how many hours or days did I spend debugging some absolute method_missing mess? Or the people that were my peers? Was it ultimately worth it to have classes, instances, and ancestors? I don't use any of that stuff now and I write pretty much the same software I did back then.
Either way I think it's particularly revealing to compare the post's first sentence and last four paragraphs.
Now I've landed in using Elixir and I can safely say I kinda think it was all a little bit of a waste. I know why Ruby had these kinds of ideas, I remember the release of Refinements (2015 was a hell of a year) and I think it enabled a bunch of interesting software, but holy crap how many hours or days did I spend debugging some absolute method_missing mess? Or the people that were my peers? Was it ultimately worth it to have classes, instances, and ancestors? I don't use any of that stuff now and I write pretty much the same software I did back then.
Either way I think it's particularly revealing to compare the post's first sentence and last four paragraphs.