Excuse if my answer was hard. I didn't know that you were the author, but I think that compare the Open Source community with things as Apple consumers is a stupid point of view IMHO.
Some of the points are correct, but not all, I agree with James Benett arguments. Your post is an opinion, and some of use can have another opinions, however you tell for opinions, so we give them to you :D But really sorry if you felt offended. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 20:01, Ramdas S <ram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:48 PM, James Bennett <ubernost...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:19 AM, didier rano <didier.r...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > What do you think about this post >> > ? http://blog.skeedy.com/django-rails-but-a-cost-to-pay >> >> I think... >> >> * A community, but it is not so easy to find developers compared to Java >> or .NET >> >> True, but finding *good* developers in any language, which is the real >> goal no matter what you're working with, is so difficult people write >> whole books on it and *still* fail. >> >> * With dynamic languages, we cannot use powerful IDE as Visual Studio. >> It is not a problem for me, but some developers like completion, >> compilation… >> >> Eclipse/PyDev will do this. Komodo will do this. Aptana will do this. >> Visual Studio will do it with IronPython. Shall we continue the list >> of IDEs which work with dynamic languages and offer all the crutches >> people are used to? >> >> * Quality check tools are less powerful because dynamic languages >> >> Just in the Python world, PyLint, Cheesecake, coverage.py and quite a >> few other quality-checking libraries would like to have a word with >> you, along with approximately eight zillion testing frameworks, >> harnesses and mock-object libraries. >> >> * Difficult to use Java or .NET libraries. Example: A lot of analytics >> semantic libraries exist in Java, but not in Python. >> >> So use Jython, which lets you blend together Python code and Java >> libraries any way you like, and even lets you deploy your Python >> applications as Java WAR files. Or IronPython which does pretty much >> the same with .NET. >> >> * Small and smart community then some developers could be arrogant, be >> “the chosen one”. >> >> Says the guy who's been factually wrong on every technical statement >> he's made about Python so far in this post? >> >> * “Religions” wars are useless… >> >> And of course, no Java developers or .NET developers ever have silly >> or pointless arguments. Only people who use dynamic languages do >> that... or something? >> >> * A lot of freelance developers, but startups needs to have internal >> developers too. >> >> Doesn't this contradict the first point? "It's so hard to find >> developers" versus "wow, there are so many developers I can contract >> with". >> >> In other words, this is poorly researched, factually wrong on most of >> its points, arguably self-contradictory... and you expected people not >> to argue with you about it? >> >> 2/10. Do better next time. >> > > 1.5/10 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- Please, don't send me files with extensions: .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt and/or .pptx http://mirblu.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
