From: James Herdman <james.herdman@...>
Date: 2009-06-16T23:09:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby feasibility?

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Greetings.
Your requirement for Windows, alone, basically discounts Ruby. I use Ruby on
a Windows PC at work and it's the very opposite of fun. Another poster
recommended C#. I think he's on the money.

James

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Dave Kubasiak <davekub@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I know just about zero about Ruby but the company I work for is doing
> some Ruby development and I need to eventually learn the language.
> There is a program re-write project I need to complete and I was
> wondering if Ruby would be appropriate for it.
>
> The app I need to write is a communication app.  It reads a list of
> devices from a database and uses a bank of modems/phone lines to call
> out and collect data from them at different times.  There are hundreds
> of devices so the app is always running, though it's idle periodically
> throughout the day.  It needs to have a GUI so someone can see at a
> glance what it's doing, and it needs to be multi-threaded.  It would
> most likely be running on Windows since that's the only GUI OS we
> currently have running (we have Solaris and Linux boxes but they're only
> console, not GUI).
>
> Would Ruby be appropriate for this task?  I've read that it can be
> sluggish and that GUI programming is somewhat lacking.  But I also don't
> know how old those comments were or how Ruby has progesses since they
> were made.  Or would something like Java, C#, etc, be better suited?
>
> Any input greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>  Dave
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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