considering there's a ruby vm that runs atop the jvm I think it's not really valid.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Here's an interesting story about how cheap SSD has gotten and the > > implications of that on web applications: > > > Link that to this.... > > http://www.cringely.com/2011/10/12/the-second-coming-of-java/ > > "Ruby is easier than Java. It runs something like seven times slower but > who cares? Were still waiting for the database. And if you are a new > developer you can learn Rails and be one of the cool kids." > > [...] "But if you replace spinning disks and moving read/write heads with > Solid State Disks (SSDs) and no heads at all, local seek times drop to > zero. Thats why Ruby and its surrogate languages will eventually > disappear. > > When SSDs gain enough capacity there will be a shift from the Ruby world > back to the Java world." > Food for thought... > > -Cameron > > ... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360046 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
