From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-06-09T14:29:51+09:00
Subject: Re: I love Ruby - But how bright is Ruby's Future?

> Would it be correct to characterize your thinking, to a first approximation,
> as the following? "Corporate IT has no use for Ruby and Ruby has no use for
> corporate IT. Everywhere else, Ruby is booming and will continue to do so."

No! My thinking is that you need to write good code!

My thinking is that this entire question is completely irrelevant and
-- as I said before -- it's much more important to think about your
future than the future of any given language.

My thinking is that the question does not matter at all. It's like
asking whether penguins prefer to sing opera in the key of G or F#.
The question probably can't be answered and even if it could its
answer would not be useful to anybody.

It just doesn't matter.

Ruby was beautiful before Rails. Now it is beautiful and popular. If
Rails fades away, Ruby will still be beautiful. That alone is reason
enough to code in it.

The corporate/business distinction is an interesting question but it's
got nothing to do with my opinions on the matter. I brought it up
because it's a logical differentiation that you appeared to have
overlooked. But my own position, I stated it earlier: write the best
code you can, find the best customers you can, and ignore everything
else because life's short.

-- 
Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org