That combo makes it crazy easy to maintain a bunch of web apps and explore/publish different ideas.
Long-term, I want to drop Ruby and go to Factor (http://factorcode.org/). You can do some amazing cool stuff in Factor that is next-to-impossible in Ruby/Python/Java/etc. It's hard to find a blog post or a screencast that shows you stuff like parsing functions and macros that let you mold the language to your needs. (The documentation on them is pretty straightforward after you learn the basics.)
Then there's the postfix notation. Most people think that's Satan's love child. It takes some time to get used to.
Just learned about Factor from the HN story a couple of days ago, I've enjoyed playing with it quite a bit. But then, Forth was my main programming language for a few years back in the 80s.
That combo makes it crazy easy to maintain a bunch of web apps and explore/publish different ideas.
Long-term, I want to drop Ruby and go to Factor (http://factorcode.org/). You can do some amazing cool stuff in Factor that is next-to-impossible in Ruby/Python/Java/etc. It's hard to find a blog post or a screencast that shows you stuff like parsing functions and macros that let you mold the language to your needs. (The documentation on them is pretty straightforward after you learn the basics.)
Then there's the postfix notation. Most people think that's Satan's love child. It takes some time to get used to.
In Ruby:
In Factor: