From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2006-12-15T03:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: FYI - Ruby related article/blog on Reddit front page

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To be honest, I found the blog post pretty much right on. Ruby is a great
language, the best language I've ever used, but it still has serious issues
to be worked out, #1 being an official language spec and following that
having a proper VM to take care of speed issues. I have looked through the
1.8.x interpreter code and frankly it's stomach-churning, with most of the
crap in the 3000+ line parser.y file, however the method of writing
extensions for Ruby 1.8.x is the cleanest and IMO the best designed API
ever. I'm not sure what's going on with YARV, but I will say that I see lots
of promise from Rubinius and JRuby promises to be the tipping point of
massive Ruby adoption across servers and desktops alike.

I'm not worried though, because of posts like this and work like Rubinius.
People have realized an upcoming problem an are working to solve it before
it becomes a nightmare.

And at the same time, none of this is really to be blamed on Matz or any of
the core Ruby developers/maintainers. Ruby was Matz's personal project and
now that it's become the language of choice for many, many programmers, it's
time to clean it up into a professional tool.

The future of Ruby is bright!

Jason

On 12/14/06, Drew Olson <olsonas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's not the most flattering blog post:
>
> http://noodlejunkie.com/articles/2006/12/10/ruby-is-rotting
>
> The title is also misleading, as Ruby as a language is fine. Post on the
> blog or reddit to clarify concerns and objections stated.
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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