That useless Ruby syntax sugar that emerged in new versions

Ever since meeting it some 20 years ago, I love Ruby.Somebody might say that nobody should feel emotional about their engineering tools, but I don’t know a law prohibiting the appreciation of means of expression. The means that make me think in new ways, solve problems with joy, and invent concepts that haven’t existed previously.During my years with Ruby, I (mostly) enjoyed observing how the language changes. And I am proud to be a small part of those changes.I believe—and have expressed this belief many times—that this process is natural and inevitable for any means of expression. As the world changes, problems change, and our understanding of what and how we want to express changes, too. What once was esoteric or academic becomes an everyday task. The complicated ideas that needed a wordy explanation before become ubiquitous enough to be just briefly referenced.