From: Eleanor McHugh Date: 2007-05-11T08:50:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Performance - LOW ? On 9 May 2007, at 00:10, Jason wrote: > On May 7, 2:55 pm, conker wrote: > >> It's sad to see ruby at the bottom of this list: >> >> Any thoughts on this? >> > > Good question. This will bug the heck out of the Rubyists... But... > > While Ruby looks like it is superior, sorry, IS superior to all > languages, it doesn't have the support of any major business or > scientific community that would fund and help create a complete > programming language solution that "just works" out of the box. You've obviously not been paying attention... Microsoft are releasing their own Ruby implementation (IronRuby) as part of the Silverlight environment. Likewise Sun liked JRuby enough to hire Charles O Nutter, so that's two major businesses that are already putting their money into Ruby. How much money waits to be seen, but neither company is known for doing things by halves. Assuming an appropriate add-on for Visual Studio, IronRuby will give 90%+ of PC users an out-of-the-box development solution. Likewise there's an Eclipse plug-in for Java developers and on the Mac it's a relatively painless process to install the RubyCocoa and RubyAEOSA packages, which add support for Ruby to XCode (although it'd be nice if Apple rolled support in themselves, considering their inclusion of Rails in Leopard). Ellie Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains ---- raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason