way faster delivery times. For example it takes me only a fraction of the time to build some fairly complex things in Ruby than it would take me to build in C#. For example I wouldn't have been able to build a mocker that resembles the design I've got in Caricature now in under 2 weeks with a language like C#. Neither is it as doable in C# to build something like ironnails which took me about 3-4 weeks to build in IronRuby.
The performance hit mostly occurs at startup time after that IronRuby is fine IMO. Most applications I make wouldn't be benefitting from a fast language because most of them consume webservices/databases/read files and those are where most of the delays come from If it's a fat client app like winforms I guess it would even matter less because you generally don't have to deal with many concurrent calls as you have to do with some server architectures. If you really need the extra performance you can go for a language like C# or something. Extensibility of existing applications would be a big one too. Metaprogramming some bits and pieces of your application etc... --- Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto Carrero Blog: http://flanders.co.nz Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero) On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Meinrad Recheis <[email protected]>wrote: > We use IronRuby to provide user scripting and light weight plugins for our > C# applications. > Cheers, > -- Henon > > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Mohammad Azam <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have been having fun playing around with IronRuby but one question >> keeps coming to my mind which is Why IronRuby? What purpose does it >> serve? >> >> I know we can use the simplicity of the IronRuby language to call .NET >> API's. This means we have two powers combined but will the IronRuby >> interoperability with .NET get faster since currently it is extremely >> slow. >> >> I need feedback from more experienced developers that what will IronRuby >> bring to the table of development? >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> _______________________________________________ >> Ironruby-core mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >> > > > > -- > Git# <http://www.eqqon.com/index.php/GitSharp> --> Git for .NET > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > >
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