On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM, glenn gillen <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Almost every argument I've seen in this thread against JRuby has been > complete bullshit, and based on many of the same false premises I > would have argued with myself as little as a fortnight ago. You still > write ruby code, it gets executed in the JVM, you have access to > thousands upon thousands of existing and mature java libraries to do > the heavy lifting for you. Generating Excel spreadsheets in ruby is a > pain in the ass. As an aside, was the gem you used for it Windows-specific? The roo gem, which I'm using for a hobby project, doesn't even allow the creation of Excel spreadsheets. > Ruby is your competitive advantage? Again, bullshit. Your competitive > advantage is the ability to get a thoroughly tested, rock solid, > performant application delivered to your client which perfectly fits > their business need. How many clients rarely care what language you > write it in? I suspect those that still do, would much prefer you > wrote it in java than ruby. > The thing that disturbed me with the essay "Beating the Averages" http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html was the assumption that programming is a zero-sum game. My fear isn't that I'll be replaced with a better programmer, but that people will decide that they have better things to spend their money on than programming. For example, see this blog post about bioinformatics http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/about-2/about/ > > Glenn Gillen > http://glenngillen.com/ > > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
