From: Ben Turner <ridder.ben@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T01:45:04+09:00
Subject: questions from a java programmer

Hi,

I currently work as a freelance Java programmer doing contracts in
Europe and am very interested in Ruby.

I have a couple of questions:

a) What is the current corporate distribution of the language? Is the
language being adopted at all for commercial projects?
b) What is the status of available IDE's/debuggers for platforms such
as MacOS or Linux? Is there anything comparable to i.e. Eclipse?
c) My expertise lies in the telecommunications world - is Ruby at all
suited for large concurrent network applications in the way other
languages like Erlang are?


I know these questions might be more commercially oriented, but a guy
has to earn a living and if I can do so with a language that seems
like good fun...

Thanks,

Ben