From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T02:38:03+09:00
Subject: Re: The real Ruby vs. Python.

Hi,

> Python on windows has a broad range of libraries
> available for anything you could ever dream of:
> Apache, Java, Email, Protocols, GTK, Qt, Tk, OpenGL,
> PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc etc etc. As far as Python
> library availability for Linux, I really don't know,
> as I was only looking for windows stuff last night. My
> feeling is that while not being quite as comprehensive
> as it's windows offerings it still offers a good
> depth.

The grass is greener at the neighbor's. :-)

Seriously, Python does seem to have more libs on Windows, or maybe, a
couple of more important libraries (like mod_python?).

I like Ruby-ODBC a lot. With it you could access MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Firebird, etc. It's a very nice library on Linux and on Windows.

As for mod_ruby I think that some people do have it on Windows, but
it's not supported by the community or for the community. Too bad.

ERuby seems to have a compiled version for Windows, but with CGI it's
kind of slow.

FastCGI is a mistery for me, but I wish it was easily available on Windows. 

Sometimes we forget that Python has it share of problems as well. Some
Ruby libraries are very well supported or have been created very well
in the first place.

The only issue with Windows that I have is that I wish Ruby had better
threading (native thread?) and I/O did not lock or worked as expected
(see the FreeRIDE debugger issues for example.) Other than that, I'm
relatively happy with the cross-platform opportunity provided by Ruby.

Cheers,
Joao