Tag: ruby

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  • All The Cool Kids Use Ruby

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  • Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails

    It’s fascinating to read Giles Bowkett on Rails, its bloat, its falling out of fashion. Fascinating mainly because it so clearly highlights that no-one is immune from this life-cycle that goes : new, simpler and easier than anything else hot-new thing that everyone loves adding more fluff to deal with more edge-cases build-up of technical debt re-writes…

  • Rails Off The Rails

    Seems like the same thing has happened with Ruby on Rails as happened with, say, Zope. Giles does a pretty good analysis. The key point is that as frameworks mature they start supporting legacy users and applications who, in turn, have different requirements and values from those looking for a quick way to build new…

  • Great talk on TDD, Ward Cunningham and what killed Smalltalk.

  • Follow on from yesterday’s “Python / Haskell crossbreed” post. Both Al “Folknology” and Gleber point me at the Reia programming language. A Python / Ruby like scripting language on top of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform (Erlang’s parallel virtual machine). Very sweet … I’ve subscribed to the mailing list to find out more.

  • Avi Bryant is working to bring Smalltalk scaling technology to Ruby on Rails. Could Smalltalk / Ruby pretty-much merge with a common VM?

  • Ruby on Javascript VM?

  • Paul Graham’s Arc Challenge . Examples in Lisp, Smalltalk Seaside, Ruby, Perl and Python (using generators instead of continuations) And an Erlang response.