Ruby 1.9.0 Released

sciurus0 writes "The 1.9.0 development version of the Ruby programming language has been released. This version has many changes, including a new virtual machine that provides great speed improvements."

Comments

Re:Why Ruby?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there any reason why I should give Ruby a try?

Speaking as a ruby developer, if you're happy with python - not really! Python's also great. It's just a matter of which suits your style. Personally, I couldn't get over Python's syntactically significant whitespace - many people would laugh at that, but for me it's just unthinkable. So Python was just ruled out for me totally because of that.

Python and Ruby are both competing to be the most beautiful next-gen languages .. but beauty's in the eye of the beholder. I've found mine, and it sounds a lot like you've found yours. So .. that was the long way to say, again, "not really" ! : )

Re:Scalability?

[JanneM]

Ruby is not a web development language. It is a general scripting language, like Perl or Python. You still seem to conflate the language with the specific use case of Rails - dynamic website scripting.

I use it heavily as my general scripting language; where I would have used Perl for small utilities, file munging or what have you before, I now use Ruby. Not because Perl is bad - it isn't - but Ruby really is in many respects Perl done right, with many of the benefits and without the syntactic quirkiness. Scaling just isn't a factor for most uses of a script language.