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Some counterpoints: 2. You have access to troves of Java libraries from most JVM languages. 3. Again, not all JVM languages suffer from this. 4. Some JVM lan
by MoOmer 11y ago
Some counterpoints:
2. You have access to troves of Java libraries from most JVM languages.
3. Again, not all JVM languages suffer from this.
4. Some JVM languages have a REPL. JRuby and Scala for example.
5. You can use Ruby on Rails out of the box with JRuby and Torquebox. A couple of gemfile changes and you're good to go.
- ericfrederich 11y agoI believe Django also works under Jython
- Chris2048 11y agoLast I used it it had a memory-leak issue that persisted for quite a while. By the time the bug was fixed, I'd gone off it.
- Chris2048 11y ago2 & 3 aren't really counterpoints - 3) explicitly states "If you go pure Java", and 2) regards compatibility issues, not lack of libraries.