From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T00:41:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

On 5/22/06, Madan Manoharan <madan.manoharan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IMO, if Ruby's vision is to penetrate the corporate environment, Ruby
> should address its performance issues among other things (e.g. support
> for apps -- Ruby on Rails).

I don't think it is Ruby's (or Matz's) vision for Ruby to penetrate
the corporate environment. Keep in mind that unlike Java or C#, Ruby
is not a commercial language, and there isn't really any benefit to
massive corporate uptake of Ruby. For those of us that enjoy the
language it certainly would be nice for our choice to be "validated"
by getting more market share, but in general myself and probably most
other Rubyists don't put much value on corporate use being an
indicator of language popularity.

Still, performance is important, and YARV will be a great improvement
in that area.

Ryan