From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2007-01-07T10:26:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Scriptable text editor with Ruby?

I don't know much about Eclipse and VS so I won't comment on those; 
however, uT and Azureus aren't both trying to be lightweight so, IMO, it 
is unfair to compare them like that.

Also, I think you have to remember that you are coding a text editor. 
On any modern computer it honestly won't matter what language you do it in.

dan

Dolazy wrote:
> I still think an application written entirely in ruby would be slow.
> Eclipse is slower than Visual Studio, Azureus is slower than
> �Torrent.. Higher level languages are slower, even if they use optimal
> data structures. I know that this doesn't have to be this way
> theoretically, and that higher-level languages allow more compiler
> optimization and all. But still you see that programs written in C/C++
> are almost always faster than those written in Java, or other
> high-level languages (esp ruby!).
> 
> I'm in favor of higher level languages, but wanting to make my
> application customizable using external scripts does not mean my
> language is too low-level. It just means that I want to make my program
> programmable.
> 
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