Rumors of Ruby’s Demise

http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/02/23/rumors-of-rubys-demise/

by g3rald • 12 years ago

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zoowar• 12 years ago

People don't choose ruby, they choose rails.

dham• 12 years ago

I don't know if that's necessarily true. I wouldn't want a Rails on Node per say,,mainly because even if you have everything(and no, none of the Rails clones do Rails very well) your still stuck with callbacks, or generators, or promises, etc.

I think Rails is a good example of a great framework with the right language. Kind of the right place at the right time.

I came to Rails from Play framework(and also Node briefly) which actually got a lot of the Rails clone stuff right(they rarely ever do), and I was still stuck with Java(Play 1), and then later on Scala(Play 1 and 2) which turned out to be terrible.

Anyway, I'm not sure why people always spew FUD about the Ruby concurrency stuff. I guess the JRuby guys are doing a terrible marketing job. Charles Nutter has even admitted to that on Ruby Rogues if I'm not mistaken.

The process concurrency is fine for a lot, if not most, applications. Everything I've done at my job has been MRI except for one specific instance where I used JRuby. That wasn't because of concurrency though, it was just to talk to some existing Java stuff.

The only language I can see even peaking my interest is Go. Even then I've been so traumatized by doing Rest API's in static typed languages that I swore I'd never use them ever again. At the rate I'm seeing, get back to me with Gorilla in 3 years and Revel in 10 years. Granted Rails is not really the goal of these projects.

lazyloop2• 12 years ago

Coincidentally Ruby and JRuby have not been accepted into GSOC this year. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gs...

lazyloop2• 12 years ago

JavaScript is bound to win the web, you just can't compete with a language that's in every browser. But it's a little puzzling to me how Python has managed to establish this devastating dominance over scientific computing.

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