From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T05:28:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby momentum?

* David Heinemeier Hansson <david.heinemeier@gmail.com> [2005-07-18 23:44:18 +0900]:

> > I'd have to say that all the "RoR 10x faster than Java" articles are
> > really giving rails a bit of a bad name.  Around here, RoR is somewhat
> > of a joke, just because of all these claims of whiter teeth, bigger
> > smiles, cleaner floors, etc, that Rails will bring.  It just makes the
> > whole framework seem like an enourmous marketing effort, which to many
> > technical people indicates a lack of quality.  I'm sure that if we
> > gave Rails a try here, it would be quickly accepted, but breaking
> > through the cynicism is really hard when a product is being so heavily
> > hyped.
> 
> There's no doubt that breaking through the awareness barrier leaves a
> residue of backlash with some. I wrote about this subject and some of
> the ecosystem numbers at http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000484.html

I wouldn't touch RoR with a ten foot pole, but those
Java, Peral and Python projects that are trying their 
hardest to copy what RoR's provides, now, those tools 
are OK.

-- 
Jim Freeze