From: Jim Freeze <jfreeze@...>
Date: 2002-07-26T09:16:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Opinion on Ruby maturity, the missing things

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:44:29AM +0900, John Carter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Paul E.C. Melis wrote:
> 
> Real Maturity issues of Ruby..
>   1) Speed compared to Perl

I have not found ruby to be any different than Perl in
speed. I can write apps faster and maintain them better,
but they run about the same speed.
(This is taken from samples of over 20 apps and 200,000 lines 
of ruby code that I have written).

>   2) RAA doesn't yet match CPAN. (But then CPAN is so huge and the 
>      crossed up dependencies so sprawling these days, it is almost 
>      unusable...)
>   3) Needs to come bundled with a larger slice of the RAA. 
>   4) Needs a "ship standalone installer + ruby + myapp + modules my app 
>      uses" thing.
>   5) Needs a better cross platform GUI/OS layer, bundled standard.

I'm not sure ruby should take sides here. There are plenty fine
ones to choose from. Don't make others pay the expense.
> 

-- 
Jim Freeze
If only I had something clever to say for my comment...
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