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The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance
igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."
That's rather amusing way to say it sucks.
Quick way to get 30% Funny 70% Troll: defend Opera browser on
Ruby is far more powerful and expressive than Python.
I call bullshit.
Ruby fans say this a lot, without really knowing anything about Python in the first place.
Ruby is less mature, much slower, and too web-focused developer community to be of interest to serious programmers. However, it does have multiline anonymous functions, which creates a sensation of attachment to the language - using them "feels" good, even if they don't really improve productivity (let alone readability).
One can't properly articulate the disgust one feels when discussing Ruby and JavaScript without resorting to profanities.
There is nothing wrong with Python that a block closure character wouldn't cure; but sadly the fucking IDIOTS who decided that a fucking INDENT aka a TAB is proper for a block closure more then deserve the scorn that has been heaped upon them and if I ran the Epiphany project I would have done the same but I am sure they did what they did for a myriad of other reasons.
When the language gets a block closure character I will actually look it it's utility, until then it goes on the scrap pile.
Hey KID! Yeah you, get the fuck off my lawn!
Oh, stop whining. It has a clearly defined block start (line ending in :, next line further indented), and a clear block stop (a line less indented than ther previous). Since you've obviously got a self-image the size of alaska, consider it a way to force the lesser idiots whose code you'll have to read into writing decently formatted code.