@everyone; I think you've all absolutely hit the nail on the head here, with the fact of developer time being more expensive than server hardware.
Also - I find it *very* hard to believe that Java would be any faster than a Python ctypes extension - I think this article is more "wishful thinking of a java enthusiast" - but I could be wrong?? Cal On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Russell Keith-Magee < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:52 AM, ydjango <traderash...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What do you think? > > > > http://www.cringely.com/2011/10/the-second-coming-of-java/ > > > > "When SSDs gain enough capacity there will be a shift from the Ruby > > world back to the Java world. Not for prototyping, because, well, it’s > > prototyping. But simply because the statement “Ruby is incredibly slow > > but I don’t care because my database is slower” will no longer be > > true. At that point Ruby (Python, Groovy, you name it) becomes the > > bottleneck." - from the above article > > There are so many mistakes and misunderstandings in that article, it's > difficult to know where to start. > > Some indications that he doesn't know what he's talking about: > > * He says "you can replace Ruby with Python, Django or Groovy". So > he's unclear on the difference between a programming language and a > web framework. > > * "Ruby has nothing on Perl". 'Nuff said. > > * "Ruby is already migrating to that JRuby (sic)"... Only for a very > specific (and incorrect) interpretation of "migrating". > > * He makes no mention of the fact that developer time is much more > expensive than server hardware. > > * He appears to be unaware of projects like V8, PyPy, or any of the > other examples of virtual machines for interpreted languages. > > Move along; nothing to see here. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.
