From: John Feminella Date: 2011-05-15T20:46:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Future Or? I guess it depends on what you mean by "having a future". Ruby's never going to compete on a performance basis with, say, C or x86, no matter how good it gets (unless there's a radical transformation in how the language works). But that's okay, because every language is good at different things. Ruby is great for a sizable number of those things (expressive domain modeling, scripting, web applications, etc.), at the expense of being less good for some of them (shuttle launch software, onboard missile guidance, etc.). It's always up to the developer to pick the right tool for the job, not the popular tool for the job. -- John Feminella Principal Consultant, BitsBuilder LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnxf SO: http://stackoverflow.com/users/75170/ On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:31, Robert Johns wrote: > I was thinking today and I was wondering if ruby has a future when > python is being to widely accepted. Outside of rails, because I have no > want to code in rails. > > Thanks > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > >