Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.cgarbs.de!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: Ralf Mueller Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Ruby Future Or? Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 03:06:20 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4DD22C76.2010501@zmaw.de> References: <6d05b0fcba29bff5bd6d7cc4fb9c0187@ruby-forum.com> <7fa70e02-65ff-43f0-8bd3-2e85f332ef0d@r33g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1305619602 52115 65.111.164.187 (17 May 2011 08:06:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:06:42 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <7fa70e02-65ff-43f0-8bd3-2e85f332ef0d@r33g2000prh.googlegroups.com> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 383376 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <4DD22C76.2010501@zmaw.de> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:4661 On 05/16/2011 11:20 PM, Daniel Berger wrote: > > On May 15, 1:25 pm, Stu wrote: >> Python and Ruby are pretty much in the same boat. Python won't be the >> Ruby killer. > My prediction? Javascript eventually kills the other dynamic languages > in the web development arena. Why use two languages when you can use > one? Sorry, but this argument just does NOT count (for me). It's leads to the question: Why develop something new? The is no language, which can to everything to the utmost satisfaction of every programmer. This will NOT happen. In contrast every language has areas, where is works fine and others which are tricky to handle with. Even if you stick to web-development (which is itself a large area), JS is not ... let's say that well suited from a programmers point of view. I'd love to see a beautifully designed language like Ruby doing client side web-programming. The other thing is taste: I personally don't like the idea of giving space such a meaning in a programming language. That's one of the reasons, I dislike about Python. Or in other words: Did we really need a dynamic language after PERL? The answer is YES, isn't it? cheers ralf