> I can think of more fun ways to spend the holidays than learning C++! Yeah, but my endgame is Gosu! (I know that you can code Gosu in Ruby, but I think that games are one area that performance really is one of *the* issues.)
Anyway, back on topic, I am a little perturbed by the news. I was liking Merb's approach & wanted to move gracefully into that *away* from rampant opinionation, whilst keeping some legacy apps up-to-date with rails. Now it looks like my choices have been reduced, and that keeping up-to-date is about to become a massive chore. & I can't enjoy the spectacle of the opinionation becoming more humble as it loses its effective monopoly on Ruby development. But those are just bitches about my personal situation -- if I were to have a more empirical view of events & their effect on Ruby development, I'd have to wait for more data as events unfold. 2008/12/23 Ashley Moran <[email protected]> > > > On Dec 23, 2008, at 10:48 pm, doug livesey wrote: > > > Typically, I decided to use the Christmas break to learn Merb! > > Has anyone suggested how long it might take to get to Rails 3.0 / > > Merb 2.0? > > I might just hang back for that & spend some quality time with an > > old flame (relearning C++ properly). > > > Yehuda Katz has promised everyone that the transition will go > smoothly, so I don't see any reason not to use Merb in the mean time. > As for whether you'd get any benefit from that, I don't know. But > Merb is working very nicely in its current incarnation, and doesn't > take that much to learn if you know Rails. After all, most code for > most web-apps is business logic (and in Ruby that means ORM-related) > or front-end (ie JS), and not web-framework-specific. > > I can think of more fun ways to spend the holidays than learning C++! > How about Objective-C/Cocoa (or MacRuby, if you want to combine the > two)... if you have a Mac that is. Or Erlang/Haskell, if you want to > dabble in the functional world (Real World Haskell is out now). Or > Scala, if you want to play with something on top of the JVM that isn't > Ruby. Hell, there's loads of good stuff around now, that doesn't > involve doing manual memory management ;) > > Ashley > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://aviewfromafar.net/ > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
