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I actually tried to submit this as well before seeing it was already submitted. My reason to submit it was that I thought it would be a interesting entry to a
by bittersweet 16y ago
I actually tried to submit this as well before seeing it was already submitted.
My reason to submit it was that I thought it would be a interesting entry to a discussion about the current state of Ruby and to be specific 1.9.2/Rails3.
- jamesbritt 16y agoMiles' post was cross-posted to the Phoenix Ruby User Group list, which is where I first saw it (and where you can find a parallel thread). What's interesting to me are the number of people attending the PRUG meetings who are increasingly exploring other languages. There are different reasons for this; for some it's mostly intellectual curiosity, for others it's a preference for what language $foo can offer. (I'm in the middle ground, having gotten interested in Haskell as part of trying to expand my PL fu, and finding that it may be better long-term path than Ruby.) At the last PRUG meeting we kicked around ideas for topics for future meetings. It wasn't limited to Ruby, and many people expressed an interest in hearing more about JavaScript, Node.js, and jQuery. In fact, the next PRUG meeting will be about the R language, and the meeting after that will have some folks (myself included) talking about jQuery. I think around October or November we'll get back to making Ruby the main topic of discussion. :)
- bittersweet 16y agoThat's more or less the same as what's happening at my local Ruby User Group in Amsterdam, last time it was all about JavaScript, Node and Coffeescript in particular. Indeed I think it's great to see that people don't stay with one language!