From: Quintus <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2010-09-17T19:02:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Developing for Ruby on Windows?

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Am 17.09.2010 10:53, schrieb Tom Wardrop:
> I've heard a lot of criticism about developing for Ruby on Windows, but
> am yet to see anyone elaborate on this. Can someone enlighten me on why
> developing for Ruby on Windows is considered to be painful?
> 
> Cheers

My personal opinion about this is that developing on Windows is not as
hard as it used to be since the Ruby Installer + DevKit have been
released. However, Windows stays Windows, and the thing I personally
most miss in Windows is the #fork method and the ability to create
multi-process programs easily. When Ruby gets rid of the GIL sometime
and Ruby's threads will run truly concurrent, I may not miss it anymore
(Ruby 2.0, maybe?).
Apart from that, I just dislike non-free (free as in freedom) operating
systems ;-)

Vale,
Marvin
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