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What are the main weaknesses of Ruby as a programming language?

15th October 2010

My answer to What are the main weaknesses of Ruby as a programming language? on Quora

Ruby still has a cultural tendency towards monkey-patching, aka action-at-a-distance. There are plenty of gems which modify existing classes—sometimes in ways that can break working code.

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