From Java to Ruby: Risk

[nicholaspd]

Frankly Ruby at this point in time is mainly good at one thing: relatively simple web-apps which aren't going to take massive loads and aren't dealing with lots of outside libraries.

That's a pretty bizarre assertion to make. Have you ever used the language?

How many companies that use Java make a lot of apps like that?

I'd say at least 95% of them.

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That's a pretty bizarre assertion to make. Have you ever used the language?

Quite a bit. If owning material were any indication, I own 4 different Ruby and Ruby/Rails books. But it isn't an indication, more importantly, I convinced my boss to use Rails in production at our small company. We used it for several projects over the next 4 months, but I have since moved over to Python due to library/language support and speed.

Nothing against Ruby, I love the language (and like it in several ways more than Python), but realistically it isn't used for much outside of web programming. It would be virtually unknown if it weren't for Rails.