Comments on: Why I view ruby as immature

By: John S Wolter

John S Wolter — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:48:37 +0000

Don’t feel too bad I see Ruby the same way. I do see it maturing in a couple of years. I like how since Ruby in a interpreted O-O language they understood that only objects are created at the CLI. This an interesting O-O technical point missed in Python’s O-O and others for that matter.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:50:53 +0000

I did the test on an amazon small ami. So I specifically want to state that my intention is not to harass ruby for it being slow, it’s that based on which set (the large or small one) you run the operation on, it impacts the speed by about 2x.

By: Amos King

Amos King — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:57:22 +0000

Can you tell me the specs on your computer. I’m getting times less that 0m2.00s. I’m not disagreeing with your point, but I’m wondering why it is so much slower.

By: Peter Williams - Is ruby immature?

Peter Williams - Is ruby immature? — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:17:47 +0000

[...] friend of mine recently describe why he feels ruby is immature. I, of course, disagree with him. There is much in ruby that could be improved, but the issues he [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:14:20 +0000

Thank you for explicitly calling out the red herring of performance, and focusing instead on predictability. It is a distraction from the more important distinctions between the languages, and usually deRAILS conversations (har har. I had to).