I don't think it's fair to say "Java Developers" rushed to Ruby. Cargo-Culting, fad-chasing developers do. The fact is statically typed code eliminates whole cl

I don't think it's fair to say "Java Developers" rushed to Ruby. Cargo-Culting, fad-chasing developers do. The fact is statically typed code eliminates whole classes of errors. There are some trade-off but I can't begin to consider the trade-off for anything non-trivial I want to survive for more than a year.