On 14-Mar-08, at 9:51 AM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:
Greetings,
I am know this has been covered repeatedly, but I just went to a mac
developers group meeting last night (in Northern Virginia), and
there was a demonstration of ruby on rails development on a mac, and
three of the people were gushing about how great it is, and no one
(other than me. . . to a limited extent) even mentioned WO. Does
anyone have any new insight about why people should consider WO
instead of Ruby on Rails?
It depends on what you are trying to do.
ROR makes perfect sense for some projects. WO makes perfect sense for
others. And sometimes it's a coin toss as to which one to use.
Personally I am most productive with WO, and it leaves me with the
fewest concerns about scalability and whether I'm going to hit
limitations when managing my object graph.
It seems everyone everywhere (outside of this list) thinks that WO
has been left to "whither on the vine" or "had some really advanced
technology" before being left to whither on the vine, etc.
Yeah, well, that's just life in the WO world. Those who know do. Those
that doubt do. Those that don't know don't.
Anyone who has watched what has happened in the community over the
past 3-4 years would would think that was a weird example of
'withering on the vine'
Ideally, I'd love to be able to do a demo of WO and WOLips/Wonder,
etc. at a future meeting, but I am not up to the necessary level of
expertise to field the questions from these guys. I have worked
with webobjects on and off over the years, but I'd like a better
argument than I can make with my unfortunately limited recent
involvement.
You can always watch the vidcasts on the WOCommunity site and try and
recreate them live. When it comes to questions: "that is an
interesting question, I'll have to get back to you on that" is a line
that usually works well for me. Bringing the list your questions will
often get them answered quickly. But, sometimes there are arguments
you just can't win. If you encounter a ROR (or any other tech) zealot,
no amount of logic is going to stop them from giving you the "we are
the future, all that old technology suxs" line.
Any suggestions, insight would be helpful.
The fact that everyone on the planet is not using your technology of
choice doesn't mean you're wrong. It might just mean you have a
competitive advantage.
;david
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