I also love Ruby. I've been using it for over 20 years now, although always in a 'supporting' role--like at most maybe 5-10% of the code I write, and I definitely don't read or write it every day.
I've also never written anything particularly large in it. Like around a few thousand LOC, tops, for any one tool. And at that point, I often find myself writing a lot of things like assert { foo.is_a?(Foo) } to check parameter types, because beyond a certain size I just can't keep all the details in my head, and I don't want to rely only on comments.
Guess I'm saying that even though I really love it for small things, I'm also skeptical of its ability to scale.
I've also never written anything particularly large in it. Like around a few thousand LOC, tops, for any one tool. And at that point, I often find myself writing a lot of things like assert { foo.is_a?(Foo) } to check parameter types, because beyond a certain size I just can't keep all the details in my head, and I don't want to rely only on comments.
Guess I'm saying that even though I really love it for small things, I'm also skeptical of its ability to scale.