This tool is forked from Coffeescript, which is deliberately designed to resemble Ruby. There's a good reason for that – some aspects of Ruby's syntax are well-loved.
It might be more effective for you to use your time understanding why these aspects are important, since you apparently feel this project is good, and less time being a bit of a dick about it.
By Ruby programmers. Why is it that Ruby programmers are incapable of imagining anyone doesn't love Ruby?
This isn't a universal truth for all programmers either. I've met plenty Java programmers willing to admit the shortcomings of Java, I've met PHP programmers painfully aware of the language's warts, I've even met Python programmers willing to admit Python's limitations. I've yet to meet a Ruby programmer who doesn't believe that Ruby is the best thing since sliced Jesus.
And clearly other people – or we wouldn't be seeing those syntax elements in other languages.
Why is it that Ruby programmers are incapable of imagining anyone doesn't love Ruby?
They're perfectly capable of that, and I think you've let your own prejudices cloud your judgement.
I've yet to meet a Ruby programmer who doesn't believe that Ruby is the best thing since sliced Jesus.
Hello, pleased to meet you. I'm a mostly-Ruby programmer who is well aware that the language is not suited to every task. Need high performance? Look elsewhere. Need a highly reliable service? Something that would benefit from static typing? Systems-level tools? Same. Ruby is a pain to deploy and has lots of irritating legacy cruft.
What this doesn't mean is that the statement "that pile of junk that is ruby" is anything other than a fucking stupid thing to say.
yeah sure - I was a bit troll-ish in the language. Let me elaborate. Imba is a spin-off of javascript intended for front-end use whose syntax is a mix of coffeescript, jsx and python as well Ruby imho; that said, please name a single use case in which Ruby will be without a doubt the #1 language for performance, scalability and all the other aspects involved in maintaining a business (including availability of programmers). Ruby is only second to PHP, which is just unreedemable (I'm even certified on it... http://www.zend.com/en/yellow-pages/ZEND005898 so don't think I'd refrain from criticizing languages I know, even very well).
As well as by not-Ruby programmers, which is why they keep getting used in non-Ruby languages that don't keep other aspects of Ruby.
> Why is it that Ruby programmers are incapable of imagining anyone doesn't love Ruby?
I think most Ruby programmers are capable of understanding that lots of people don't like Ruby, and more importantly that lots of people don't like aspects of Ruby that those Ruby programmers find most attractive.
Sure, some Ruby programmers have problems with this, but, OTOH, some non-Ruby programmers seem incapable of understanding that other non-Ruby programmers might find some aspects of Ruby attractive that they, themselves, do not.
> I've met plenty Java programmers willing to admit the shortcomings of Java
Well, sure, the more likely you are to be compelled to use a language because of corporate inertia, the more likely people that actually do use it will be the people that don't like it and use it under duress. So I'd expect Java to be among the languages with the highest proportion of active programmers who not only are willing to admit its shortcoming, but who outright despise it.
> I've yet to meet a Ruby programmer who doesn't believe that Ruby is the best thing since sliced Jesus.
Given the number of non-Ruby programming languages created with substantial input from (or even under the leadership of) people in the Ruby community specifically because, while they like many things about Ruby, they find it not optimal for some uses, I think this says a lot more about your limited exposure to the Ruby community than about the Ruby community itself.
It might be more effective for you to use your time understanding why these aspects are important, since you apparently feel this project is good, and less time being a bit of a dick about it.