Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story (stripe.dev)
from sanitation@lemmy.radio to programming@programming.dev on 05 May 2026 17:53
https://lemmy.radio/post/13168202

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StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip on 07 May 2026 06:51 next collapse

We use Ruby at work, for a team I’m only tangentially involved with, and I’m not a fan. I’d be curious to know what a company that uses it as their primary language looks like. It seems like there’s a lot of funky edge cases especially in templating that have bitten us.

Has it really been 10-15 years since Ruby peaked in popularity? I never really paid much attention but I feel like time is a fiction.

FizzyOrange@programming.dev on 07 May 2026 07:19 collapse

Yeah Ruby sucks but that was an interesting read, and the way they used Serde to decode Ruby values is a very clever trick!