From: James Herdman <james.herdman@...>
Date: 2006-06-25T04:04:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby flaws , follow up to Ruby goodies

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I've found that the only thing I've worried about is threads as they aren't
true.  However, this hasn't been a problem with me as I haven't done any
real multi-threading work.  It's in the back of my mind though.

I find it to be a real pain in the ass to code in anything but Ruby now.
Java and C feel grotesque, and these were the languages I had the most
experience in before Ruby.  Mind you, I'm a young programmer and am truly
cutting my teeth with Ruby.

Best of luck,

James

On 6/24/06, Roger Johansson <roger.johansson@compona.com> wrote:
>
> Ok Ive got a fair picture of whats good about Ruby.
> Now what would you consider to be the biggest flaws or limitations in
> ruby?
>
> I personally thought that going from a type safe language to a dynamic
> one would be more of a fuzz, but I have hardly noticed any problems.
>
> the thing I have most problems with in that respect is that I have to
> reffer to the documentation for every single method to see what they
> return.
>
> eg, "Class.instance_methods" returns an array of strings, I would have
> bet money on that it would return an array of "Methods"
>
>
> so I guess using a 3rd party lib with poor documentation must be a real
> pain in ruby, while its not that/as bad in eg c# where you can atleast
> guess what to do based on return / in parameter types
>
>
> the next thing that I have a hard time with is the IDE's
> since Im used to having VS.NET wiping my butt all the time, its a pain
> using some notepad++ sort of IDE, however Ive found activestate Komodo
> which atleast is decent except for some random hangups..
> (ok that wasnt a problem with the language, its more of a lacking tool
> support)
>
> and the one thing that scares me the most, name collisions.
> since its possible to extend classes to left and right and doing all
> sorts of cool stuff, there must be a huge risk that frameworks extend eg
> "Class" with methods that collide or such things?
>
> it feels a little bit like installing all your applications directly on
> C: root.
>
> (I know you can get some namespace'ish thing with modules)
>
>
> Anything else that I can expect to get disappointed at with Ruby?
>
> //Roger
>
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