[Raynes]

http://t-a-w.blogspo...lar-than-c.html

Mildly amusing if taken with a cup of Earl Gray.

This post has been edited by Raynes: 17 July 2010 - 01:07 PM

[raziel_]

haha Visual Basic is more popular then C#. even that it looks like the add VB.NET and VB6 together

[baavgai]

I'm more inclined to go with this one: http://www.tiobe.com...tpci/index.html

Ruby ain't even in the top 10. While ruby is an entertaining language, I can't think of anything major actually done with it. It certainly isn't used in any serious business applications I'm aware of.

[xclite]

While his quote may be true, Stroustrup could put less to bitch about into C++.

[modi123_1]

This Stroustrup guy - why is he important to listen to again? Sounds like a pinko to me.

[Raynes]

baavgai, on 19 July 2010 - 11:33 AM, said:

I'm more inclined to go with this one: http://www.tiobe.com...tpci/index.html

Ruby ain't even in the top 10. While ruby is an entertaining language, I can't think of anything major actually done with it. It certainly isn't used in any serious business applications I'm aware of.

The TIOBE index is blah. I find it hard to rely on such things.

I'm not quite sure there you get your news at, but where I get mine, Ruby is used for tons of stuff.

modi123_1, on 19 July 2010 - 11:54 AM, said:

This Stroustrup guy - why is he important to listen to again? Sounds like a pinko to me.

He's the guy responsible for C++.

He isn't necessarily important to listen to. I don't think this article is meant to be taken seriously.

[skyhawk133]

baavgai, on 19 July 2010 - 11:33 AM, said:

I'm more inclined to go with this one: http://www.tiobe.com...tpci/index.html

Ruby ain't even in the top 10. While ruby is an entertaining language, I can't think of anything major actually done with it. It certainly isn't used in any serious business applications I'm aware of.

I believe Twitter is coded in Ruby.

MySpace is coded in ColdFusion.

[modi123_1]

Raynes, on 19 July 2010 - 02:33 PM, said:

modi123_1, on 19 July 2010 - 11:54 AM, said:

This Stroustrup guy - why is he important to listen to again? Sounds like a pinko to me.

He's the guy responsible for C++.

He isn't necessarily important to listen to. I don't think this article is meant to be taken seriously.

Yes.. I know.. someone was trying to be a smart ass.

[Raynes]

skyhawk133, on 19 July 2010 - 12:35 PM, said:

baavgai, on 19 July 2010 - 11:33 AM, said:

I'm more inclined to go with this one: http://www.tiobe.com...tpci/index.html

Ruby ain't even in the top 10. While ruby is an entertaining language, I can't think of anything major actually done with it. It certainly isn't used in any serious business applications I'm aware of.

I believe Twitter is coded in Ruby.

MySpace is coded in ColdFusion.

Twitter uses Ruby for it's frontend and Scala for most of the backend.

[baavgai]

I immediately knew someone would mention Twitter. It's worth nothing how the one big rails site survives it's traffic: "Rails is a matter of cost: just throw more CPUs at it."

More:

Quote

It’s great that people are hard at work on faster implementations of the language, but right now, it’s tough. If you’re looking to deploy a big web application and you’re language-agnostic, realize that the same operation in Ruby will take less time in Python. All of us working on Twitter are big Ruby fans, but I think it’s worth being frank that this isn’t one of those relativistic language issues. Ruby is slow.
-- http://www.radicalbe...per-alex-payne/

I recall reading some of their architecture where they used JRuby, and then Scala, to help with the issues. Hardly a ringing endorsement.

[Raynes]

I'm not defending Ruby as a language. It's definitely slow. I'm just sayin', you made it out as if it's some obscure language that nobody has ever heard of before, and that certainly isn't the case.

[xclite]

I must be the only one who thinks Ruby stands on its own as an interesting language, Rails be damned.

[Raynes]

You definitely aren't the only one. The Clojure community is full of people who came from Ruby to Clojure, and I know tons of people who used Clojure Ruby for stuff other than web-dev, and think it's an awesome language. I'm one of them.

Damn. I wish somebody would have pointed that out to me. I borked that one up good.

This post has been edited by Raynes: 20 July 2010 - 05:01 PM

[dorknexus]

Who is using Ruby?

Who is using Ruby on Rails?