On Jul 29, 9:45 am, Joseph Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the sort of thing we tend to cheer on:
Who was cheering? Where's the cheering? Oh... trollbait. Sorry - let's move on... > There's no doubt that JRuby is an impressive technological > achievement, but with her mission, she's no friend of ours. Ours? Speak for yourself. I use it every day and consider it a godsend. I also use C-Ruby, perl, Java, and whatever else I need to get things done. > Right now, > Ruby (and Rails) is our competitive advantage. Again, speak for yourself. And some advice: if some way-cool-tech is your competitive advantage, particularly an open-source, freely available way-cool-tech, you're in a for a surprise. I suggest switching to analysing the problems and needs presented to you by your employer/client/etc. > We shouldn't be > worrying about how to get Ruby into enterprise. I work both in and out of the enterprise. I'm not worried. > We should be worrying > about Ruby getting into enterprise. Nope. Still not worried. > Does Ruby need this? No. All ruby needs is some hard disk, some RAM, a CPU and a compiler. > But we have no great investment in that. Our investment is in the > awesomeness of our community, ... which this post just devalued by several billion awesomes. > Don't forget: this is business. ...and that is irony. Anyway, Charles Nutter is way ahead of you: http://blog.headius.com/2008/09/elephant.html And to the person with the 30 second start-up time: have you tried using a computer? And if that's still not fast enough: http://blog.headius.com/2009/05/jruby-nailgun-support-in-130.html For real awesomeness, I'll point y'all to the following posts: http://blog.headius.com/2009/01/my-favorite-hotspot-jvm-flags.html http://blog.headius.com/2008/10/ffi-for-ruby-now-available.html http://blog.headius.com/2007/07/understanding-jvm-jit-and-helping-it.html http://blog.headius.com/2007/11/java-6-port-for-os-x-tiger-and-leopard.html Warning: the above posts are by somebody who is actually getting things done. Finally, don't forget: Java != JVM, and the hotspot JVM is probably the most well optimised library available in the industry today. I don't see how anyone could shun it in the interest of "competitive advantage". --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
