On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:52:55PM -0700, Ryan Lane wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > > Daniel Friesen wrote: > >> The ops guys hate ruby. > > > > I am pretty sure they love it. Puppet itself is a DSL based on top of > > ruby. The ops argument is we don't want to handle security updates and > > nasty performance bug for yet another language. > > No. No. We hate it. I, personally, also dislike puppet, but that's > another discussion totally.
I think the "we" is a bit unwarranted. I don't hate Ruby and I certainly don't hate Ruby more than Java :-) I also don't feel the same about puppet; I do see some problems with it, but none of them have nothing to do with the fact that it's written in Ruby. I think this discussion is pointless though. If we find a good tool for the job and it's clear how to install and maintain it, I don't see why we should care about its implementation language, at least from an ops perspective. I've seen horrible & difficult to operate software in Python and perfect ones in Ruby. I don't see how our personal preferences towards languages have any value here. Regards, Faidon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
