From: Richard Conroy Date: 2006-09-13T23:53:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programmingr On 9/13/06, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:14 AM, Richard Conroy wrote: > > > Currently there is nothing on the Ruby radar for that. I mean Ruby > > 2.0 is in early discussion phase... > > $ ruby_yarv -ve 'puts "In the early discussion phase!"'ruby 2.0.0 > (Base: Ruby 1.9.0 2006-04-08) [i686-darwin8.7.1] > YARVCore 0.4.1 Rev: 527 (2006-07-19) [opts: [direct threaded code] > [inline method cache] ] > In the early discussion phase! > > James Edward Gray II What are their release dates? Have all of the library/ plugin and existing code problems been addressed? How Rails compatible are they? Has the rush to be version compatible with various libraries introduced any exploits? Can I patch my customers installations right now? Basically "How soon can I hot swap my interpreter in my rails app with No ill effects". I am talking about how long it takes to: - produce a X.0.0 revision - produce a version with all the library issues worked out by the community (either a X.0.(1..n), or more correctly, rev all the main libraries) - build confidence in a particular version These processes take time. Less than 12 months seems woefully optimistic. 18-24 months maybe? Longer?