> Ruby isn't going to die if it doesn't get "enterprise" adoption. Quit > worrying about it, and keep working on what you love.
Well, no, but it certainly helps the Ruby community if enterprise organisations find it easier to adopt Ruby. And if they go en-mass to Groovy, or to Scala, and suddenly those languages get lots of evil corporate lucre, then it may not hurt the Ruby community - but it certainly isn't helping it either. - Korny On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Pete Yandell<[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/7/29 Joseph Pearson <[email protected]>: > >> Pete, I'm not saying "Ruby should be insular". > > What are you saying? I'm still not clear. > >> I'm saying work on the cool stuff. Don't be distracted trying to get >> your friend in Corp X using the same tools you are, just because she's >> envious of them. > > So if somebody outside the Ruby community is interested in our tools, > you don't think anyone inside the Ruby community should help them > learn about, adopt, or build on what we do? In what sense is that not > insular? In what way is helping people outside the community not > "cool"? > > > If I stop playing devil's advocate for two seconds, I think you're > trying to say something like this: > > Ruby isn't going to die if it doesn't get "enterprise" adoption. Quit > worrying about it, and keep working on what you love. > > I suspect everyone here would agree with that. Sure, Charles Nutter > wouldn't, but JRuby is his baby and every parent thinks their baby is > special. > > - Pete > > > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
