Hmm, what do you think? He proposes valid points. One other problem I see with mainstream adoption is that, unlike .NET and Java, Ruby and/or Rails doesn’t have a large horizontal technology comapny, a-la Microsoft or Sun, evangelizing it with people and dollars. It has to stand on its own merits without any hype machines behind it.
April 7, 2006
Why Rails Will Never Become Mainstream
March 1, 2006
How Good Are You With Ruby? Take the Quiz
You can test your Ruby skills with The Ruby Quiz
February 16, 2006
Joel on Rails, and the Rebuttal
Joel Spolsky has some valid gripes about Ruby on Rails. Read the article here
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.309321.8
And a prompt rebuttal posted here.
http://zifus.blogspot.com/2006/02/regarding-rails-restrictions.html
January 27, 2006
Ruby/Python/C++/Java Side By Side Code Comparison
I was on digg.com and found this link that does a side-by-side comparison of a program written in Ruby, Java, C++ and Python. Interesting way to compare the languages. I remember when I was first learning C# way back the book “C# for Java developers” was a great way to quickly get up to speed with C# because of it’s similarities to Java. Anybody know of any sites or books that teaches Ruby by comparing it to another language?
