Ruby vs. Visual Basic vs. Arc
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What is Ruby?Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.
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What is Visual Basic?Visual Basic is derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.
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What is Arc?Arc is designed for exploratory programming: the kind where you decide what to write by writing it. A good medium for exploratory programming is one that makes programs brief and malleable, so that's what we've aimed for. This is a medium for sketching software.
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Companies |
What companies use Ruby?
2921 companies on StackShare use Ruby
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What companies use Visual Basic?
14 companies on StackShare use Visual Basic
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What companies use Arc?
8 companies on StackShare use Arc
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Integrations |
What tools integrate with Ruby?
73 tools on StackShare integrate with Ruby
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What tools integrate with Visual Basic?
2 tools on StackShare integrate with Visual Basic
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What tools integrate with Arc?
1 tools on StackShare integrate with Arc
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What are some alternatives to Ruby, Visual Basic, and Arc?
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Latest News |
Multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems
February 16, 2018
Rustic Nil Handling in Ruby
February 12, 2018
Moving Custom Ruby Code out of the Logstash Pipeline
January 25, 2018
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Related Comparisons
Interest Over Time
Reviews of Ruby, Visual Basic, and Arc
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kfretwell33Simple to learn
November 11, 2016 09:26
I taught myself Ruby about a year ago. I had experience with HTML/CSS, MySQL, and a little bit of javascript and python but would consider this my first true programming language I became proficient in (later picked up Swift).
I started with a CodeAcademy course before working on my first Rails project. The language is easy to read and Rails is an amazing framework. The online community is fantastic, the documentation is amazing, and there is no shortage of Ruby Gems which allows you to quickly "cobble" together a new project.
Ease of Use Documentation Reliability Support
How developers use Ruby vs Visual Basic vs Arc
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StackShare uses Ruby
Only thing worth noting here is that we saw some major issues with memory swapping on Heroku with Ruby 2.1.2. We weren’t the only ones. So we actually reverted back to 2.0.0. Here’s what happened:
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benyomin uses Ruby
When we are comparing Turing complete languages it's not about what compiles faster or to the cleanest machine code, it's about what the developer can think in and write faster, including the availability of libraries. A couple of times I wrote some ruby scripts for this project. I just like the language best for some things. Love the syntax.
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SaberEsPoder uses Ruby
We are primarily a Ruby shop; our main apps are running on Ruby + Rails, our Slack bot is written in Ruby and our smaller projects are on Sinatra. It makes it really easy for us to re-use code and switch between different projects since they are all on the same language.
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toolmantim uses Ruby
Because happiness. Testing via RSpec (mostly model and request specs), Factory Girl for fixtures, VCR for testing API responses, timecop, Redcarpet for Markdown rendering, Intercom gem for posting events.
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Karma uses Ruby
Most of our services are written in Ruby. We started out as a Ruby shop, but we're slowly also moving some stuff to Go. We're using Go more and more these days, actually, including some backend services.