On 29/07/2009, at 9:45 AM, Joseph Pearson wrote: > Stuck with awkward languages, copycat > frameworks, dubious projects and secure, well-paid jobs. On average > they're earning two or three times what we are, for work half as > dangerous.
Do you have a reference to this outlandish comment? Two to three times? Ah, no. On 29/07/2009, at 10:00 AM, Andrew Snow wrote: > For the rest of us, I don't think too many people are going to be happy > with the 30+ second startup time of the lumbering JVM every time they > want to run their tests... Autotest; dude, autotest. I can't wait the 5 seconds that it takes the stack to initialize. On Jul 29, 10:42 am, Josh Price <[email protected]> wrote: > Believe me, I don't think you have to worry about community dilution > either. We won't be seeing any exodus of "average enterprise > developers" into the Ruby community any time soon - they simply don't > care. But we might expose a few good eggs to the beauty of Ruby and > the awesomeness of the community along the way. Not forgetting that Ruby already has many "average developers" without any influx from "the enterprise" - Don't be a fear monger! REE, Rubinius and JRuby all offer an alternative, that alone is a good thing. I wonder if anyone has ever stopped to think that Ruby might not have a place in an enterprise development space? Use the right tool for the job, sometimes say no to jobs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
