That is a good question that I have been mulling over these last few says. I think that I need to suck it up and just re-familiarize with Java -- it is less verbose, with annotations and closures now, right? -- for all of the benefits that the JVM with Wicket will bring me. I got a bit spoiled by years of Ruby, but man, do you pay for that lack of compile-time checking and type safety over and over again -- especially with regard to performance and endlessly climbing stack traces over typos.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Colin Rogers < colin.rog...@objectconsulting.com.au> wrote: > Mike, > > I hate to be the old cynic and doomsayer, but generally I find that > whenever a two programming technologies are 'crossed' over, with the idea > that you'll get the advantages of both - the exact opposite occurs and > actually you end up with a technology that only has the disadvantages of > both and the advantages of neither. > > After all, Wicket in Java works really well... how would ruby improve it > over Java? Or Scala in the JVM? Or Groovy on the JVM? > > Like I said - sorry - I don't wish to negative, but it seems like a > thankless task awaits you! :) > > Cheers, > Col. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Pence [mailto:mike.pe...@gmail.com] > Sent: 22 June 2013 02:21 > To: users@wicket.apache.org > Subject: A Wicket in Ruby > > So I have this crazy idea to try to write some subset of Wicket using > CRuby and the variety of technologies it employs (EventMachine, etc.) > > Hard to know where to start though, or how best to form a mental model of > what Wicket does vs. doing a straight class-to-class conversion. Maybe > there is a test suite in the wicket source I should consider. Of course, > there is nothing like stepping through the code to understand the lifecyle > of a wicket request (and to see how it persists session data, especially). > > Am I crazy? > EMAIL DISCLAIMER This email message and its attachments are confidential > and may also contain copyright or privileged material. If you are not the > intended recipient, you may not forward the email or disclose or use the > information contained in it. If you have received this email message in > error, please advise the sender immediately by replying to this email and > delete the message and any associated attachments. Any views, opinions, > conclusions, advice or statements expressed in this email message are those > of the individual sender and should not be relied upon as the considered > view, opinion, conclusions, advice or statement of this company except > where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the > considered view, opinion, conclusions, advice or statement of this company. > Every care is taken but we recommend that you scan any attachments for > viruses. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >
