From: Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>
Date: 2008-12-31T00:16:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

C. Pohjanraito wrote:
> 
> 
> It is a nimble little language!
> 
One of the reasons I favour Ruby is it isn't Java. Anything mainstream 
gets coated in layers of bureaucracy.

The question is not so much whether people like it versus something 
else, it's how it might find a niche in a corporate context. Rails has 
given Ruby a sort of USP so almost always when you see a vacancy it's 
for Ruby with Rails. My objection to Rails is you're back to having to 
learn more than one set of things before you can get going.

I'm thinking along these lines -
very simple to install;
zero licence fees;
extensive integration features;
fully OO - a fast agile cousin of Java

As a matter of interest - is it really all that nimble, or is it that 
nimble people use it?

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