I just discovered that Ruby is a clusterfuck!

Every language is a clusterfuck. Have you heard of Haskell? It's supposed to be the most elegant language in use. I bet there are more examples of bad Haskell code than of state of the art clean code they say it's possible with Haskell

Ruby absolutely allows creating clusterfucks. Probably more than most languages because it allows you to overwrite anything you want.

class Integer
def +(number)
result = self - (-number)
return (result == 4) ? 3 : result
end
end

2+2
=> 3
2+2+2+2
=> 7
(2+2)+(2+2)
=> 6

It is a contrived example, but apply this to typical cases of e.g. overriding methods defined in a parent class, and a method elsewhere accepting instances of either the parent or child, and operating on them in the same way. You could say it’s a bad interface or an improper separation of concerns, and you would be right. but does this still happen in practice? It absolutely does, and it inevitably leads to a nightmare debugging session. And unless fixed correctly in the implementation, the tendrils of technical debt slowly creep throughout the codebase.

This isn’t to say it’s unique to Ruby; all languages allow similar code smells and bad practices. The cause here is that Ruby makes everything easier — including writing absolutely atrocious code.

The language I love but never get to use

I discovers that on the first module of the learn ruby page lol

Ps isn’t that a fun word ?