don't take this the wrong way, but -- people still use ruby?
nixpulvis•36m ago
People should. I seriously miss using it at my day job. It's not for code where type systems make things a lot more stable, but it's great for scripting and quick things. Also ORMs in ruby are truly nice, and I haven't found anything as good anywhere else.
Generally speaking Ruby has the best APIs.
andreynering•31m ago
Ruby on Rails is the GOAT. Nothing comes close in joy and productivity, even in 2026.
vidarh•18m ago
For pretty much everything. My terminal is in Ruby, with a Ruby font renderer, running Ruby shell, and my editor is in Ruby, my window manager, my file manager.
(Yes, I'm taking it a bit far; my prototype Ruby compiler is self-hosting finally, so I guess sometime in the next 20 years I'll end up booting into a Ruby kernel for no good reason...)
claudiug•6m ago
ruby and rails is the only stuff that keep me doing web development.
when I touch js, and python... I prefer ONLY AI agentic style of working.
akerl_•2m ago
What’s the right way to take this?
nixpulvis•38m ago
Would this be possible to mainline into ruby in some way?
vidarh•22m ago
From the article: "This new feature will be available in Ruby 4.1.0."
vidarh•24m ago
> More importantly, on CI systems it’s relatively common to check out code using git, and git doesn’t care about mtime
git doesn't care about mtime, but git maintains trees whose hash changes if any constituent part of the tree changes. It'd seem tempting to check for a .git and if present use the git tree to determine whether to invalidate the cache.
byroot•15m ago
Aside from the oddness of making this cache git aware, with the new implementation I suspect querying git to revalidate the cache would take longer than just rebuilding it.
blinkbat•38m ago
nixpulvis•36m ago
Generally speaking Ruby has the best APIs.
andreynering•31m ago
vidarh•18m ago
(Yes, I'm taking it a bit far; my prototype Ruby compiler is self-hosting finally, so I guess sometime in the next 20 years I'll end up booting into a Ruby kernel for no good reason...)
claudiug•6m ago
when I touch js, and python... I prefer ONLY AI agentic style of working.
akerl_•2m ago