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Well, it's not an IDE, so it's not fair to compare it to Pharo which is trying to be both a runtime environment and an IDE. If anything, it's an advantage that
by shawnz 9y ago
Well, it's not an IDE, so it's not fair to compare it to Pharo which is trying to be both a runtime environment and an IDE. If anything, it's an advantage that Ruby allows you to make choices about the development environment you use.
- FractalLP 9y agoI think it's fair to compare the language+environment which is the only thing that practically matters. Smalltalk has a really nice IDE and fast VM. Ruby doesn't have a native IDE, but does well with things like Vim & Notepad++. Ruby has a lot more modules and Rails. I wouldn't consider Ruby to be very fast being one of the slowest popular languages out there.