From: Chris Martin <chriscodes@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T01:52:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance

On 8/12/05, Adrian Howard <adrianh@quietstars.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm sure with sufficient effort somebody could run Amazon with a
> large parallel group of highly trained stoats. Who cares :-)
> 
> There are large web sites built with Java, Perl, Ruby, C++, Lisp, C#,
> PHP and god knows how many other languages. PHP and Perl didn't build
> their market share because they were /faster/ - they built it because
> they were /better/ (for certain definitions of "better").

Very true.
Those definitions of better can vary greatly depending on what you're
coding too.

Thanks to Rails, I think we'll see Ruby's market share (on the web)
increase drastically in time to come.

IMO Ruby (on rails) offers much faster development, and near instant
productivity. That is a great achievement that no other
language/framework can come close to.

As always, it's a matter of "the right tool for the job".
Like perl, ruby can do many jobs.

Also (IMO) ruby offers a nice bridge to all forms of programming (cli,
gui, web), and as many have said before.... it's just a joy to work
in! :)

-- 
Chris Martin
Web Developer
Open Source & Web Standards Advocate
http://www.chriscodes.com/