On 01/30/2014 05:05 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > - I think Ruby is hideous (aesthetic, I know) > - Until recently Rails performance has been horrendous. It's not > "great" now, mind you, but it is at least competitive. I just have the > stigma left over (I had a similar issue with Java for a good two years > after 1.3)
Performance can mean a lot of different things. Web apps need scalability more than the ability to do CPU-intensive things in a timely way. So ruby doesn't need to be fast for a web application to work well. I suspect you're referring to other aspects of performance, not just CPU-bound calculations. And that is a fair criticism. What exactly caused Ruby on Rails to have performance and scalability issues? And what issues would Ruby have that Python doesn't have? For example, they both have a GIL, which makes multi-threaded approaches fairly useless. Of course asynchronous and multi-processing are the techniques being used to scale these days. Can't see any reason Ruby can't do them like Python can. Does Python with a mature framework like Django scale at all compared to a behemoth like Java? What is your experience? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
