Ruby on Rails and J2EE: Room for Both?

Wayne writes "Ruby on Rails is a relatively new Web application framework built on the Ruby language. It is billed as an alternative to existing enterprise frameworks, and its goal, in a nutshell, is to make your life -- or at least the Web development aspects of it -- easier. This article will contrast the Rails framework against a typical J2EE implementation using common open source tools that are regularly found in enterprise applications."

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Re:Python will kill Ruby

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So let me get this straight... A group comes up with a great platform for web development. But instead of using the platform, another group feels the need to re-implement it in their language of choice.

And, of course, "Python will kill Ruby" in a space where Ruby is already set up and running for several releases. Instead of helping out a project that deserves recognition for work already done, we make a different-language fork of the same concept!

When will open source grow up and recognise that the the market won't support this many variations on a them? That maybe one desktop environment will thrive while two might falter? If we concentrate on the one best project, we might just improve that project greatly. This is surely better than the certainty of getting nowhere on several marginal projects.

Please, don't believe the hype. Python and Ruby came about at roughly the same time. Python is a nice language and ruby is a nice language, but rails was created on ruby for several reasons, and there is no need to port it to every language up to and including snobol.