Agreed. I'm not a vegan (I eat meat from certifiably "happy" animals) but it's a perfectly understandable position. The only rational conclusion is that people who find veganism confusing are simply looking for a reason to dismiss it.
Wow. Calling someone out for "not knowing what he's talking about" and then claiming that "The underlying hardware [of PS2] was a bog-standard single core MIPS" is hilarious. Ever heard of VUs? Which were the key to PS2 performance and one of the main reasons PS2 games continued to improve even years after release?
If you actually want to learn something:
http://www.bringyou.to/games/PS2.htm
I liked the Witcher, but I wouldn't say it had great writing -- perhaps the original Polish version did, but certainly not the translation I played. The one game released in 07 that I'd credit with truly good writing is NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer.
Ruby 1.9 (YARV) would definitely exist, and I don't care much about the other projects you listed. "Ruby would be as popular now as Lua or Tcl" is an interesting thing to say, considering that I use Lua in my current project at work, and that it's used in a piece of software with more than 9 million installations.
I have been using Ruby since before Rails existed, and the whole Rails "community" has been highly suspicious to me from the start. Between outrageous claims and a far too religion-like mindset I just kept my distance waiting for the hype to go away again. It seemed to much like a marketing before technology movement (akin to say, the Java it derided so much (for good reason)).
You can see the difference between the old Ruby community and the Rails evangelists in many threads on the main Ruby mailing list throughout the last few years. Some of us already warned that in the end Rails may be a bad thing for Ruby back when the marketing blitz started, and now it seems this might hold true after all.
It's not a fate a very nice, expressive language made by an incredibly modest guy deserves. I hope more Ruby aficionados distance themselves clearly from the Rails hype.
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Agreed. I'm not a vegan (I eat meat from certifiably "happy" animals) but it's a perfectly understandable position. The only rational conclusion is that people who find veganism confusing are simply looking for a reason to dismiss it.
Wow. Calling someone out for "not knowing what he's talking about" and then claiming that "The underlying hardware [of PS2] was a bog-standard single core MIPS" is hilarious. Ever heard of VUs? Which were the key to PS2 performance and one of the main reasons PS2 games continued to improve even years after release? If you actually want to learn something: http://www.bringyou.to/games/PS2.htm
I liked the Witcher, but I wouldn't say it had great writing -- perhaps the original Polish version did, but certainly not the translation I played. The one game released in 07 that I'd credit with truly good writing is NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer.
Ruby 1.9 (YARV) would definitely exist, and I don't care much about the other projects you listed. "Ruby would be as popular now as Lua or Tcl" is an interesting thing to say, considering that I use Lua in my current project at work, and that it's used in a piece of software with more than 9 million installations.
I have been using Ruby since before Rails existed, and the whole Rails "community" has been highly suspicious to me from the start. Between outrageous claims and a far too religion-like mindset I just kept my distance waiting for the hype to go away again. It seemed to much like a marketing before technology movement (akin to say, the Java it derided so much (for good reason)).
You can see the difference between the old Ruby community and the Rails evangelists in many threads on the main Ruby mailing list throughout the last few years. Some of us already warned that in the end Rails may be a bad thing for Ruby back when the marketing blitz started, and now it seems this might hold true after all.
It's not a fate a very nice, expressive language made by an incredibly modest guy deserves. I hope more Ruby aficionados distance themselves clearly from the Rails hype.