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		AdieuToLogic 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby already solved my problem > In any other language I can think of real quick (TS, Elixir, C#, Python, PHP, Go) a fair number of these parts would be substantially more wordy or syntaxy at little immediately obvious benefit. Like, this class is super concise but it doesn't trade away any readability at all. Scala would like to have a terse say about this... :-)

skrebbel 39 days ago | [–]

Fair! I was underwhelmed by a Python port in a sibling comment but I can imagine Scala could come close indeed! I mean it’d take a day to compile but it’d look pretty!

pxc 39 days ago | [–]

Scala also draws on many other sources, but syntactically it clearly takes inspiration from Ruby in a lot of nice ways!

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