host posted on 二月 01, 2007 22:32
Do you agree with what people are talking about here?
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"Both of these posts miss the original point that Joel was trying to make: Ruby is still not a mature language, and Ruby on Rails is even less mature. There is no evidence yet that Ruby or Ruby on Rails applications will scale to the level typically required for many large scale web applications. There are well documented performance issues, that Joel rightly points out." -- From Joe Brinkman
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Developers Say: "The Future Is ASP.NET 2.0 and Ruby on Rails" -- From wwwcoder.com
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"First off, I've been hearing about Ruby since around 2002. I had just finished reading the Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and some other guy (David Thomas, had to look it up). Ruby had been out a little while and these guys were starting to rave about it. Larry Wall, the Perl god, was saying Ruby was better than sliced bread. But people weren't switching from Perl over to Ruby, so I figured why bother. Back in Feb I downloaded Ruby and started playing with it. First thoughts? It looks like VB for Linux. Better yet, it looks like VB.NET. You throw Rails on top, and you get a bunch of libraries/APIs, kinda like the dotnet framework. Wow, I'm not impressed. If I was anti-Microsoft, then maybe I'd be singing Ruby's praises as well. It is an alternative, an open source alternative. Big whoop. Will I play with Ruby some more? No, not unless the source of a program I am working on or playing with is written in Ruby. Why use Ruby when you can use DotNet and Mono? Why use Ruby when you can use Microsoft? Wow, never would have expected that to come out of my mouth 4 years ago. But seriously? VB.NET vs Ruby? Tell me what corporate America banks on and I'll tell you who wins the fight. Sure, people said the same thing about Java years ago, but this isn't the same Microsoft of 2002. People will use the appropriate tools for the task at hand, and most will use Microsoft technologies for business applications. Tell you what I'll do, I'll keep an eye on Ruby at this year's OSCON, and I'll let you know if my attitude changes then. I'm betting that I'll be nicer towards Ruby, but won't change my underlying opinions. Actually, I've just changed my opinion, comparing it to VB.NET is too nice of a compliment. Oh well." -- From Kelly White