2008/12/01

Enterprise vs Ruby/Rails

Charles Nutter posted an interesting tweet on a fear from the enterprise world in Ruby/Rails "scene". I think I know this fear 'cos I felt the same seeing all the early sidenotes on Ruby from the Java world. But Ruby people, the best of the Java people are now truly open minded, the JVM has a great scripting interface and give us the power of Java, the servlet and application containers offer terrific possibilities - what else do you want?

Ezra Zygmuntowitz writes about monoculture that we do not need. I agree! Hail to the diversity of languages and VMs. Use what you need and love, leave what you don't.

The key is the hacker culture here I guess. Rubyisms considered hacketies and metaphors. And being free from rigid standards. My opinion on this issue is quite simple: you still (and will) have the choice. Free choice on dev environment, language, framework, operating system and all.

Isn't it great?

1 comments:

szabi said...

Nem akarsz magyarul blogolni? A haza ruby community még kicsi és szerintem minden ilyen kitekintésre szüksége van - szerintem érdemes lenne rajta elgondolkoznod.