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:Benchmarks mean nothing, specially these ones.

[sciurus0]

According to Chu Yeow, Mongrel doesn't run on 1.9.0 yet. Neither does Rails. The release of 1.9.0 coincided with the API freeze for 1.9.x, so hopefully projects that were holding off on porting to 1.9 will do so now. The situation is complicated by 1.9's transitional nature; you should stick with 1.8 if you absolutely need stability.

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.