Started programming in Java, trying ruby for the first time...Beautiful

@AlexDeLarge Fuck fanboys, regardless of the language.

But I'm curious. What made you dislike it that much?

I had tried to learn programming in high school several times. I tried C, C#, JS and Python but nothing seemed to click. I found Ruby on a blog talking about how, in part, Twitter was written in Ruby before it switched to PHP and I got interested so I ran through a tutorial and it was the first time that programming and "talking to computers" actually clicked and made sense.

I mean, sure, partly it's to do with where my head was at in high school (video games constantly) but discovery Ruby has been like opening Pandora's box and I'm loving it!

I'm still learning Ruby because that was only 4 months ago and it's my first language. I want to make sure I understand what is going on when I write code but I've never been happier. I haven't felt like this since grade 3 science!

@JonnyCodewalker ahh another Crystal enthusiast. Crystal is indeed wonderful. If you want the beauty of Ruby and the speed of C it is the language to use.

@JonnyCodewalker there’s a great community around it too if you check out gitter and irc

Hmm, you make me want to see the beauty of ruby. As shine as a crystal.