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Ruby Dropped In Netbeans 7
An anonymous reader writes "Ruby/RoR in NetBeans made headlines three years ago, but after Sun was acquired by Oracle there where fears that support for dynamic languages would suffer, as this IDE would be downsized. This has become a reality, since as of version 7, NetBeans will no longer support Ruby."
It's a dead language I'd always say.
Can you cite the Netcraft story?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I used to like NetBeans at least as much as Eclipse, but with Oracle in charge, I'm not sure I can trust the future of anything from them that's free.
Depends on your deployment environment. If your environment is Glassfish with JRuby as your runtime, Netbeans is a wonderful, logical choice as it has one-click deployment to Glassfish instances.
Once again showing that using the demographic you're in as sample leads to bad conclusions more often than not.
Anybody who can get emacs running on a contemporary machine is clearly a hero.
user@host$ sudo $PKG_TOOL $INSTALL_OPTS emacs && emacs
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I support Eclipse dropping Ruby. It's a waste of time for them to support my favorite language. Eclipse is the peak of the Java wave. Nay, it is the very pinnacle of Gosling's genius. Anyone who looks at the incredible elegance of the system will quickly realize how unsuited it is to Ruby development. Ruby is just not ready for the brilliance of the Eclipse Development System. It was too shoddy, too tainted with the foul fumes of scripting languages. Practically reeks of Perl.
Until Ruby is worthy we'll just have to settle for Textmate and Vim.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. - Hunter S. Thompson
I use slackware you insensitive clod! I'm guessing its a poke at the *ubermassive* memory requirements of *16* MB RAM. To GP, It's OK, you can crawl out from under the rock. The war is over and we all use cat now, as men once did.
"People don't want to learn linux" hasn't been a valid excuse since '03.
if your idea of programming is "editing" a couple of "scripts", then you're not a programmer.
This little religious war gets trotted out every few months, and it always devolves into one final comment to the effect that if you're not using a sewing needle and a lodestone to flip the ones and zeroes manually then you're an effete momma's boy.
Wanting something to be harder than it needs to be doesn't make you a professional or a "true" anything, it makes you a masochist.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
Well, considering he's not going to be making any money for the product that he's giving away for free, pardon him for not wanting to spend money to pay people to work on it. Sorry, but it's a business decision and Ruby support doesn't actually make them any money, especially if they're more interested in trying to sell Java-based solutions now that they own that.
Part of the reason Sun was bought out was because they spent money on utterly pointless crap like adding Ruby support to Netbeans in the first place. A lot of developer effort that in no way helped them to stay in business. Whoever pulled the trigger on this did so because it was a waste of money for the company. The only possible thing it could do is get them a little good will from people who are unlikely to buy Oracle products anyways.
Well that and most of the industry is past the Ruby phase anyhow. It really didn't pan out and even the diehards will have moved on in another decade. It's not like the language is going places.
Exactly. I'm fine as long as emacs doesn't drop support for Ruby :-)
I tried to use Netbeans and other IDEs but I never liked all the clutter around the code window. I use them only for Java when the customer forces me to.
32 transactions a second... wow. Impressive.
I am only required to be able to support 60 thousand simultaneous transactions in the software I develop.
Pretty clueless you are. 32 TX/s ? That's nothing. I think I can guess what your "financial industry" is. And throwing JSP/ Spring/ WhateverFrontEndStuff in the same pot with EJB makes you even more clueless. Ever heard of separation of concerns? Frontend - Middleware - Backend? An EJB3 middleware app connected to a cobol backend (that's the setup most banks and insurance companies use) can easily handle thousands of asynchronous TX per second on common server hardware.
RoR has it's place, even in the financial world, but that place is the front end, delivering HTML or whatever. But it never touches a backend system without going through middleware, you would be crazy to do that.
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
Does she like it?
Wanting something to be harder than it needs to be doesn't make you a professional or a "true" anything, it makes you a masochist.
Indeed, but people usually don't want things to be harder than it needs to be, they just don't want change.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
My hatred was already maxed out for the null/empty-string screwup.
It has been so long since I've been bitten by that particular "feature", I forgot about it entirely. Now that I remember: DAMN THEM. GOD DAMN THEM.