[PJUG Javamail] RoR is going to take over the world!

[Tim Dysinger]

OK I'll bite,  -  I don't know that much about Ruby other than not  
many people use it and it's dynamically typed.  I stopped there.

On Apr 14, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Cookie Monster wrote:
>
> Ruby was born on February 24 1993 and made available generally in  
> Japan at the end of 1995. Java was released to the world no earlier  
> than October 1994.

The windows installer for Ruby has only been around for a few years  
though, AFAIK  :P

>
> Also, there's a Ruby plugin for Eclipse.

I think I did say there was no "IDE".   I guess that counts in a sort  
of 1997 way.

>
> As far as APIs, let me know of one you use as a regular part of  
> your Java development that isn't available in Ruby.

OK, How about a cross-platform desktop UI (like Swing)? 10+ years  
later folks are still searching [ http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby? 
DoYourRubyGUIResearch ] for the right solution.  It's no different  
than Python.  Only Java got that one half right.  ( No joke I am  
working on some Swing stuff right now ).

OK, OK, OK - I'll try it.  I'm not going to like it.  I'm only doing  
it because I have the spare time right now and everybody says it's  
cool.  I still don't like dynamically typed languages.  ;)


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