> Could not disagree more strongly and it seems many others in software agree, based on this comment section and the original article.
They sure do! But lots of people also agree, as evidenced by people continuing to use it. The world keeps turning, and we engineers keep using suboptimal things.
> I don't know that Ruby support is why it's widely adopted. Ruby is common in some spaces, but not a wildly popular language at all.
Ruby’s now gone out of fashion, but it was the most popular web development language (especially among startups) for the better part of a decade. It’s conjecture, but I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if Ruby brought YAML into a lot of shops by virtue of bundling it. Docker (and Docker Compose) came into full force a few years into Ruby’s peak, so it’s the egg to Ruby’s chicken. And we’ve all forgotten that Hashicorp was originally a Ruby shop!
They sure do! But lots of people also agree, as evidenced by people continuing to use it. The world keeps turning, and we engineers keep using suboptimal things.
> I don't know that Ruby support is why it's widely adopted. Ruby is common in some spaces, but not a wildly popular language at all.
Ruby’s now gone out of fashion, but it was the most popular web development language (especially among startups) for the better part of a decade. It’s conjecture, but I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if Ruby brought YAML into a lot of shops by virtue of bundling it. Docker (and Docker Compose) came into full force a few years into Ruby’s peak, so it’s the egg to Ruby’s chicken. And we’ve all forgotten that Hashicorp was originally a Ruby shop!